GCC unplugged

The copyright assignment requirement really *is* worthwhile and really *does* have advantages,
not least that GCC can be relicensed when needed (which the FSF recently took advantage of).

It would be rather silly if flagship FSF projects couldn't be relicensed to use the latest
versions of the FSF's own licenses.

(In any case, you lose no rights to speak of with the copyright assignment anyway: you get a
grantback which gives you back the rights you'd have as a copyright owner anyway, including
the right to release your own work under whatever license you choose, free or not.)

Also, the majority of GCC maintainers don't work for free (either they're paid by people who
need GCC --- Linux distros, Apple, et seq --- or they run consultancies based on adapting and
porting GCC for people --- e.g. CodeSourcery). This has been true for a *long* time: not quite
for all of GCC's existence, but certainly for most of it.