Re: New maintainer

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> David Engster <address@hidden> writes:

> I'd suggest to read the past discussion on this to better understand
> Richard's position. There's a good summary at LWN:

> http://lwn.net/Articles/629259/

Stefan wrote:

> 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.

Isn't crippling the output of GCC, to prevent use by proprietary vendors, a
direct example of limiting *our* freedom, as users who want access to that
information to improve our use of Emacs (or other tools)? Making such
information available does not make GCC or Emacs in any way more proprietary
or freedom-destroying. If anything, it is liberating the information known to
these applications, so that it can be more widely applied.

Richard, can you please clarify? I can appreciate not wanting to support,
favor, or even recommend, proprietary systems. But the discussion I'm reading
at that link feels different from this.

John