Good lord Stallman is such a zealot and hypocrite. It's not open vs. closed it's mine vs. yours and he's openly declaring that he's nerfing software in order to prevent people from using it in a way he doesn't like. And refusing to talk about it in public because normal people hate that shit "misunderstanding" him.

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I let this drop back in March -- please forgive me.

  > Maybe that's the issue for GCC, but for Emacs the issue is to get detailed
  > info out of GCC, which is a different problem.  My understanding is that
  > you're opposed to GCC providing this useful info because that info would
  > need to be complete enough to be usable as input to a proprietary
  > compiler backend.

My hope is that we can work out a kind of "detailed output" that is enough for what Emacs wants, but not enough for misuse of GCC front ends.

I don't want to discuss the details on the list, because I think that would mean 50 messages of misunderstanding and tangents for each message that makes progress. Instead, is there anyone here who would like to work on this in detail?

▲ bigfishrunning 6 days ago | parent [-]

He should just re-license GCC to close whatever perceived loophole, instead of actively making GCC more difficult to work with (for everyone!). RMS has done so much good, but he's so far from an ideal figure.

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tovej 6 days ago | parent [-]

How in the world would you relicense GCC

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colechristensen 6 days ago | parent [-]

Most contributions are required to assign copyright to the FSF, so it's not actually particularly open.

If the FSF is the sole copyright owner they're free to relicense it however they please, if no one else has any controlling interest of the copyright, the GPL doesn't restrict you from relicensing something you're the sole owner of (and it's doubtful there's a legal mechanism to give away rights to something you continue to own)

Again, the FSF under Stallman isn't about freedom it's about control.

	▲	tovej 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		"Most" is not all, and I doubt rights have been turned over since the beginning. Either way, it would just create a GPL fork.