If there is enough people to do a vote, that's great.
My vote: -1 I do not think that people should be discouraged from suggesting rules for the GNOME community, and a reaction like leaving the GNU community because Richard made a suggestion could be interpreted that way, I think. We can always say "no". Richard Stallman said: There are many ways to implement such a rule, of which "block the whole blog" is about the toughest one we might consider. I'd suggest rather to try a mild approach; I'm sure that can do the job. Richard's suggestion that a "mild approach" may be appropriate does not seem over-the-top to me. Perhaps a "mild approach" could be something simple like a disclaimer on planet that highlights that "some information on planet may advertise non-free software, and we want to make clear that GNOME does not endorse non-free software and instead encourages people to consider free alternatives." might be a reasonably mild and acceptable solution? I would prefer to see such a disclaimer, actually. Perhaps we should also make the disclaimer say something about hunting. Brian
Such a vote, whatever the outcome, would have little effect on the GNOME project. The debate during the vote could cause a lot of harm & discord for the GNOME community. An outcome whereby GNOME is no longer a GNU project could cause a lot of harm to the free software and open source movements in general - there would be massive negative publicity. Since there is very little up-side and substantial down-side, both real and in terms of image (which is an important consideration, I think), I do not think that we should vote on this issue. Don't we have more concrete issues to address?
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