| From: Mark Wielaard <m...@klomp.org> | This seems a pretty bad policy to be honest. | Why was there no public discussion on this?
Agreed. I also agree with the rest of Mark's message. (Note: I haven't contributed to GCC but I have contributed to other copylefted code bases.) It is important that the pool be trustable. A tall order, but solvable, I think. Two pools (FSF for old stuff, something else, for new stuff if the contributor prefers) should be quite managable. This would allow, for example, moving to an updated copyleft if the two pools agreed. It is important that the governance of the pool be trustable. We've trusted the FSF and now some have qualms. A second pool would be a check on the power of the first pool. Individual unassigned copyright pretty much guarantees that the copyright terms can never be changed. I don't think that that is optimal.
