GCC debates project governance

GNU maintainers defy the FSF all the time. It's a give and take. I remember
a number of projects refusing to switch to the GFDL, basically answering "You
want it changed, you do it. I won't block the commits, but I won't do them
either." Some people were stripped of maintainerships, but often those
people just continued to do the work anyway. It sorted itself out in the
end.