Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:06:52 +0200 | From | Marc Lehmann <> | Subject | Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0? |
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On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 04:13:25PM +0100, Nix <nix@esperi.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > (Froget about the "committe" stuff...) > > Marc will probably agree here that this (except for the bit about RH > owning Cygnus) is purest garbage. The whole *point* of the Steering > Committee is to prevent any single interest from gaining control of
BTW, AFAIK gcc is the only large free software project that has an explicit rule that (quote):
* No single organization is allowed to have 50% or more of the votes. [This includes groups of developers from the same company or a university]
The cygnus/redhat merger was indeed a point where this rule had to be checked, fortunately even redhat+cygnus is well below the 50% mark.
But even if it were true, it isn't good.
> It is up to the release manager (following the release criteria) to > release GCC. It is not up to RedHat. But they can, if they want, ship an > unreleased GCC.
Yes, they can do whatever they are allowed by the license, of course. The question is wether it's right, or what the consequences are.
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