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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...
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... 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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This was the mailing list thread:
gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/
Alexandre Oliva is a member of the FSF board of directors and a member of the GNU project. Christopher Dimech is another GNU project member.
Their posts are very representative of my experience with GNU & FSF for years.
Alexandre actually isn't and it seems like he left the FSF board due some kind of problem he needed to apologise for.
fsfla.org/ikiwiki/blogs/
I wasn't able to find _what_ the problem was quickly,
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I didn't realize he left the FSF board in January this year. It appears that he's still a very core part of FSFLA and he's still part of GNU including maintaining linux-libre.
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