RFC: Conscious language in the Binutils

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Guys,

  [I am writing this email with my Red Hat on, rather than my FSF hat].

  Inside Red Hat there is an initiative to address some of the language
  used in open source projects, making it more inclusive:
  
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/making-open-source-more-inclusive-eradicating-problematic-language

  This includes addressing terms used in source code, as well as
  documentation and so on.  I would like to offer to make such changes
  to the binutils sources.  (See for example the attached patch which
  addresses uses of blacklist/whitelist and master/slave).  These
  changes would only cover source code maintained by the GNU Binutils
  project itself.  Imported sources, eg libiberty, config and zlib,
  would not be changed unless these changes happen upstream first.

  Before making any alterations however I wanted to see if there were
  any comments, concerns or issues regarding this proposal.  Does anyone
  have anything that they wish to say ?

Cheers
  Nick

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