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twitter.com/amszmidt/statu FSF folks think people assigning copyright to the FSF means they did the work. Maybe GCC should go back to being called EGCS.

The standard "I made this" meme.

Developer is talking to Richard and hands over and awesome magical widget.
"I made this", the developer says proudly.
"You made this?", asks Richard inquisitively.
The developer leaves. Richard stares at the wondrous widget and frowns, confidence shaken.
Richard's frown fades away and he tells himself "I made this", fully believing it to be true. He smiles.

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Alfred M. Szmidt

@amszmidt

Jun 1, 2021

Replying to @rodgertq and @gnutools

We do, the GNU Project maintains GCC. Your free to fork.

5:56 PM · Jun 1, 2021Twitter Web App

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twitter.com/amszmidt/statu The official GCC policy is available at gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/. Copyright assignment to the FSF is no longer required to contribute to GCC. Emails you sent myself and many others via GCC mailing list won't change that and neither will the replies here.

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Alfred M. Szmidt

@amszmidt

Jun 1, 2021

Replying to @DanielMicay

"places attacking people for not wanting to assign copyright to FSF." -- I never said any such thing, the GNU project / FSF require copyright assignments for GCC. Simple as that. If you do not want to assign copyright then the change cannot be incorporated.

Daniel Micay

@DanielMicay

Jun 1, 2021

The GNU/person who sent us all 3 useless emails via the GCC mailing list, posted assorted replies here calling GCC developers IBM shills and posted the same thing in response to me multiple times calls me a spammer for reusing my response to their own copy-pasted response. Huh?

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I have no association with the FSF. Maybe also stop spamming me? And indeed… if those who want to go the EGCS route again, that would be great.

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> I have no association with the FSF. That's simply not true. I'm not very interested in debating what qualifies as an association. I wasn't saying you worked for them. > Maybe also stop spamming me? How am I spamming? You posted multiple replies on their thread. I posted one.

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