Le vendredi 11 décembre 2009, à 17:20 +0100, Philip Van Hoof a écrit : > I propose to have a vote on GNOME's membership to the GNU project.
So, as far as I can tell, nobody is collecting a list of members who support such a vote proposal. I still wanted to reply there. For many of the reasons Dave wrote, I would believe splitting up from the GNU project is a bad idea. Let me add a few things... The GNOME Foundation itself is a free software supporter, and advocates for free software, and I believe this reflects the opinion of the vast majority of the GNOME community. So I would think it's safe to say that this is the position of the GNOME project. As such, I think the GNOME project definitely has its place in the GNU project, whose goal is to create a free software operating system. That doesn't mean the GNOME Foundation fights against non-free software by saying that non-free software is bad and should not be used nor exist. We have a policy of having the GNOME platform LGPL, and so it can be used by non-free applications. We're happy this way. Our way to fight against non-free software is by writing better code, that is free. Also, the GNU project is not the FSF. When reading the thread, I have the feeling that some people want the GNOME project to not be part of the FSF, or to disagree with the FSF. The GNOME Foundation is part of the FSF, and we sometimes disagree with the FSF, and we're all fine this way. (Note that the FSF is an advisory board member of the GNOME Foundation, though, and it's valuable one that we're happy to have). I think Andy wrote more on this [1], but I didn't take the time to read his post so I won't put words in his mouth :-) Cheers, Vincent [1] http://wingolog.org/archives/2009/12/13/gnu-gnome-and-the-fsf -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
