Our special report on Sourceware, which hosts vital developer tools such as GCC, and a split over 'corporate' help
As Bruce Perens, one of the founders of the open-source movement,"Ultimately, this is a classic discussion of what kinds of governance and organizations should be the homes for FOSS projects," said Bradley M. Kuhn, Policy Fellow at SFC, in an email to"At SFC, we believe strongly that governance and organizational structure matter. Specifically, there are substantial governance differences between 501 charities and 501 non-profits .
Mark Wielaard, a Sourceware overseer and senior principal engineer with Red Hat's Platform Tools group, toldin an email that Sourceware has been going for almost 25 years and those involved would love to have that continue for another 25 years. "While the FSF provides overall fiscal sponsorship, including raising and holding funds for the projects, we have not had to provide the infrastructure since the volunteers at Sourceware have done such a good job of that.
We aren't politicians; we just want to volunteer doing our work to help the community, and we're frustrated by all this Wielaard said the discussion with the SFC is ongoing, public, and positive, as the SFC's engagement with the FSF has been.