On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 07:35:39PM -0800, Brooks Moses wrote: > Ed S. Peschko wrote: > >And in any case, why should it be off-topic? I would think that > >the possibility of your project being divided in two would be of > >great concern to you guys, and that you'd have every single motivation to > >convey any sort of apprehension that you might have about such a split > >to the group that could prevent it. After all - lots of you are putting > >a great effort into GNU software basically gratis... > > I and many other GCC developers read a number of lists; this is not the > only place we exist. Thus, the fact that this is something that we > might wish to discuss is not congruent with it being something that we > want to discuss _here_. > > What you are describing are reasons why we might want to discuss this in > some forum elsewhere. They are not reasons why it should be considered > on-topic in this particular list. > > - Brooks > Fine.. as I said, what's a reasonable forum to discuss this on? gnu.misc.discuss just doesn't cut it.. gnu.licensing.discuss might be better if it existed.. linux-kernel discusses it at length - where I guess it is not considered off-topic - but that doesn't reach either the FSF, or developers, or stallman as far as I know.
It doesn't seem that there *is* a decent forum for discussing it (or so google says). Let me know if you know otherwise. Ed
