Post Syndicated from original https://lwn.net/Articles/915385/

The Register looks
at the discussion around the GNU Tools Infrastructure proposal.

Sourceware, a volunteer group that has been supporting various
critical FOSS developer tools for more than two decades, is being
courted by The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Security Foundation
(OpenSSF). The OpenSSF aims to improve open source software
security by providing Sourceware projects with more modern IT
infrastructure.

But some members of the Sourceware community fear that accepting
the help of the OpenSSF would give the corporate Linux world more
leverage over FOSS developer tools. They would prefer to seek
support from the Software Freedom Conservancy, a charitable
non-profit that they believe is better aligned with software
freedom.

LWN covered this discussion back in
September.