Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el

[Richard Stallman]

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I wrote this

  > > By replacing most of GCC with non-copylefted code, they would have
  > > gone most of the way towards achieving the same result: to make GCC
  > > cease to be a reason for all sorts of companies to work on a compiler
  > > that always gives users freedom.  Because GCC would have come much
  > > closer to failing to always give users freedom.

when I saw your message.  At that time all I could see was what was in
your message.  At the same time I sent another message to get a copy
of https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00888.html.  That arrived
subsequently.

Because my mail is sent in batches, I am generally responding to messages
from a day before.

  > "If people are seriously in favor of LLVM being a long-term part of GCC,
  > I personally believe that the LLVM community would agree to assign the
  > copyright of LLVM itself to the FSF and we can work through these
  > details."

I am stunned to see that we had this offer.
Now, based on hindsight, I wish we had accepted it.

If I had seen it back then, I would not have had the benefit of
hindsight, but it would clearly have been a real possibility.  Nothing
would have ruled it out.

I wish I had known about the offer.

Oh well.

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