Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13) [LWN.net]

From:		Steven Bosscher <stevenb.gcc-AT-gmail.com>
To:		Joe Buck <Joe.Buck-AT-synopsys.com>
Subject:		Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
Date:		Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:05:05 +0100
Message-ID:		<571f6b510903201105w6b622a7dg8c9bac23aed75eb6@mail.gmail.com>
Cc:		Daniel Berlin <dberlin-AT-dberlin.org>, David Edelsohn <dje.gcc-AT-gmail.com>, Richard Guenther <rguenther-AT-suse.de>, Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin-AT-googlemail.com>, "gcc-AT-gcc.gnu.org" <gcc-AT-gcc.gnu.org>
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On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.com> wrote:
> The problem in this instance is that the SC has little power; it's
> the FSF that's holding things up and I don't know more than you do.

I don't understand this. Why does the SC have little power in this
matter?  Surely you could decide to ship GCC 4.4 with the old license,
as the official GCC maintainer?  But you *choose* not to use this
power (perhaps for good reasons, but I'm unconvinced).

Ciao!
Steven

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