What a relief that I don’t need to boycott a whole compiler
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RMS no longer on the GCC Steering Committee:
gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/
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It's still a GNU project and RMS is the leader of the GNU project. GCC apparently has their own infrastructure but in a conflict with GNU they could potentially lose their domain. It would be a mess with some people regarding a GNU fork as legitimate based on owning the domain...
... I've personally experienced this situation and wish them luck with it.
I don't think that they're going to be able to remain a GNU project without RMS expecting to be able to exert control over it.
I think it will take a while to play out. Mailing list thread was a mess.
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I believe the FSF still sponsors GCC development, even if most of their money goes to advocacy causes, so if they break in addition to needing new infrastructure, they would also likely need new funding.
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Not sure what percentage of GCC development is still funded by the FSF (it's probably small), and likely Red Hat or something sponsors more developers to do full-time development, but it might hurt the project still.
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Losing the domain is not a big deal since the machine is already the same as sourceware.org, it could just pick up gcc.sourceware.org very easily. Glibc, binutils and gdb (and others) are all hosted on the same machine.
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