>On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Steven Bosscher <stevenb....@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Mark Mitchell <m...@codesourcery.com> wrote: >>> Steven Bosscher wrote: >>> >>>>> Why not just ignore RMS and the license issues and simply do what we >>>>> think suits us and the project. Let the FSF deal with the legal >>>consequences, >>>>> they put us in this messy situation, they deal with it. >>>> >>>> It seems to me that escalating the issue is more helpful. GCC is not >>>> the only project with this problem. >>> >>> Sadly, at this point, RMS is simply taking the position that this is not >>> a problem worth solving. >> >> Ah, how the "free" in Free Software Foundation takes a whole different >> meaning when it comes to actual freedom... > >Ha! Sounds like time to overturn the (benevolent?) dictator! > >Richard.
Or to move to a better foundation? It seems to me that gcc has had various issues for various reasons for quite a while now. RMS is all for tightly controller yet freely distributable software. Maybe it's time to throw more effort behind something like LLVM?