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> OK, I checked this in: > ! was a public project and competed with FSF's gcc project. Finally, in spring > ! 1999 FSF closed their gcc project and EGCS was renamed into GCC. Still wrong. The FSF never "closed their gcc project". This *is* the gcc project. Same people for the most part, same code base. We were always careful with egcs to do things in a way that would prevent a permanent fork. What we were doing, in essence, was to demonstrate to the FSF that there was a better way of doing things. It is difficult to do these things without offending people; there were some very sensitive politics involved. But the end result has been a great success. What happened in April 1999 was that the 2.8.x and egcs lines of development were merged and the egcs maintainers were given charge of the whole project. The current way of working is more in line with FSF principles than what we had before (restricting who can get snapshots seems at least to violate the spirit of the GPL, even if it is technically allowed). > BTW, what did EGCS stand for? eggs. (hence the logo). Actually there were several suggested meanings for the "E": "experimental" was the most common one, and it was presented to RMS as an experiment. He was kept informed and gave his sometimes grudging approval for the major decisions. ------ Want more information? See the CrossGCC FAQ, http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC/ Want to unsubscribe? Send a note to crossgcc-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com
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