Hi Richard, Your suggestions would probably be better received if they didn't sound so much like orders.
The GNOME project has said "free and open source" for a long time both on our web pages and in press releases as far back as 2000. Changing it is likely to bring up a long debate like the one we've just seen. Stormy On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Richard Stallman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> http://live.gnome.org/ProjectPrerequisites > >> > >> "The project must be free/open source software." > > That text ought to say, simply, "The project must be free software". > > Adding "open source" makes the meaning less clear. There are open > source licenses which are not free; "/open source" introduces > uncertainty about whether those licenses are acceptable. Deleting > those words would make it clear. > > The words "/open source" also create doubt about whether GNOME is > aligned with the free software movement. Could you please fix that? > > The release team goes further for official modules and states: > > Free-ness: Apps must be under a Free or Open license > > This is a more serious problem, because those words definitely imply > that some non-free licenses (those which are "open") are acceptable. > It could lead people to think they should be able to include programs > which are not free software. > > Can someone please fix that? > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list >
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