From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12524 invoked by alias); 28 Jul 2010 21:00:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 12516 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Jul 2010 20:59:59 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-fx0-f47.google.com (HELO mail-fx0-f47.google.com) (209.85.161.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:59:54 +0000 Received: by fxm12 with SMTP id 12so1852806fxm.20 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:59:52 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.156.10 with SMTP id k10mr748411hbc.147.1280350792184; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:59:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.239.140.201 with HTTP; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:59:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4BFC6EF0.4090908@codesourcery.com> <20100714172307.3687a9c4@shotwell> <4C48D2C4.5000103@codesourcery.com> <4C48D60E.3000604@codesourcery.com> <20100726175013.20b12428@shotwell> <4C4E35B8.6010301@codesourcery.com> <4C4E37FC.1060208@adacore.com> <4C4F010C.5060401@codesourcery.com> <20100727180738.GU17485@synopsys.com> <4C4F20E8.5050206@codesourcery.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:00:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: GFDL/GPL issues From: Steven Bosscher To: Richard Guenther Cc: Mark Mitchell , Joe Buck , Robert Dewar , Benjamin Kosnik , Ian Lance Taylor , "gcc@gcc.gnu.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2010-07/txt/msg00408.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Richard Guenther wrote: > Why not just ignore RMS and the license issues and simply do what we > think suits us and the project. =A0Let the FSF deal with the legal conseq= uences, > 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. Ciao! Steven