> Btw, I cannot find anything related to this discussion (about whether > and what power the FSF has to force their maintainers to do anything) > in the official FSF documentation (http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/).
Well, as the copyright owner and the appointer of maintainers it is pretty obvious that the FSF *can* do whatever they want. Obviously, since they are intelligent people they will usually just ask you to follow the GNU project guidelines (including the strong suggestions about using C). Paolo