> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2021 at 12:16 PM > From: "Joseph Myers" <jos...@codesourcery.com> > To: "Frosku" <fro...@frosku.com> > Cc: e...@thyrsus.com, "Christopher Dimech" <dim...@gmx.com>, "GCC > Development" <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> > Subject: Re: removing toxic emailers > > On Fri, 16 Apr 2021, Frosku wrote: > > > Right now, the ultimate oversight of GCC sits with GNU & > > FSF -- both institutions with a mandate to represent the ecosystem based > > on level of membership and time spent fighting for free software. > > I think the oversight of glibc by development working through discussion > seeking consensus, and rejecting any attempt to override such consensus > "from above", is much more effective than any attempt GNU or FSF makes at > oversight. An umbrella organization for the toolchain should not act as > an "above" that can override the community at all; it should provide > services to the toolchain (e.g. legal support) as needed.
It should act as an umbrella organization for distributing useful code under robust legal theory during the production of software in commons. That's my position, anyway. > -- > Joseph S. Myers > jos...@codesourcery.com >
