Luis Rivera wrote:
Now, as far as GPC is concerned, I'm not positive about its status: has it been acknowledged as part of the GNU project, or is it only released as OSS, with GCC as its backend compiler?
Yes, it's officially part of the GNU project (see http://directory.fsf.org/GNU/), though obviously not integrated with GCC, mainly because it lags behind backend versions.
Objective Modula-2 wrote:
There was another incident many years ago where a developer had created a GCC to JVM translator or vice versa and was about to donate his code to the FSF. Richard Stallman was outraged and he trounced this poor guy in public, asking him to destroy his code so it would never leak anywhere.
I suppose you refer to this message:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-02/msg00895.html
However, according to this, RMS did not "trounce this poor guy in public", but in private, and it was Trent who publicized the discussion (note the "From" and "To" headers, both in the main mail and in the quoted messages). He also didn't ask "him to destroy his code", just to take them off his website.
While any of us may disagree with RMS's judgement of the situation or his actions, you made two severe accusations there which you better could back up somehow ...
Frank