Hello, On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 12:46:42PM -0500, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > In the GNU project everyone is welcome, even people who do not share > the goals and philosophy of the GNU project.
I do not think this makes sense, actually. As soon as we have a bit of responsibility in GNU (like being a maintainer, which is the role I know), we are also ambassadors of GNU. So I would expect us to uphold the GNU standards. For instance, I would not find it acceptable that a GNU maintainer goes to FOSDEM to give a talk about their newest open source software on a Macbook, or using a Powerpoint presentation on their Windows machine. This of course does not preclude that we may accept patches by such people; but they are not "in" the project, but make contributions from the "outside". It is completely reasonable to make this distinction, as Samuel explained for Debian. And in practice, I have yet to meet a GNU maintainer who would state "I do not care about the four freedoms, I am just maintaining this random package that happens to be under the GPL, because of its cool features." Or is this your case? Andreas
