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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.

Daniel Micay

@DanielMicay

Jun 1, 2021

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.

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Your spamming. The mission statement says otherwise. gcc.gnu.org/gccmission.html

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I'm not spamming anyone. You chose to send out 3 emails about this to everyone subscribed to the GCC mailing list including myself. You chose to post replies in the threads here. I didn't send you any emails. You sent me three. Who exactly is spamming who again?

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Lordy. Such spamming… you’ve posted the exact same response three times for one tweet, twice for two others. I lost count…. But good on yah!

Daniel Micay

@DanielMicay

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@amszmidt

You're the one sending out multiple emails about this to everyone, posting on these threads and started copy-pasting the same reply to me here followed by attacking me for reusing the same reply multiple times in response. The evidence is all there for people to see.

6:40 PM · Jun 1, 2021Twitter Web App

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Three emails on three different subjects. And to everyone .. that’s how mailing lists work. Anyway. *plonk*

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You chose to start posting responses on the GCC thread on Twitter. You got pinged for my initial quote tweet, and that's only fair. Everything else is you being notified about your posts on my timeline. You're welcome to not respond if you don't want more notifications from mine.