On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 11:13:57PM +0300, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote: > Iʼd like to remind, that promoting a copyleft from a just a tool applied > strategically to a unyielding principle would be in contrary to the effective > recommendations published on gnu.org [1].
As also pointed out by others, there are exceptions. So we should modify this. > > We want to give everyone the opportunity to contribute to our efforts on > > any of the many tasks that require work. We welcome all contributors… > Many GNU subprojects value ‘recordkeeping’ (per Prof. Moglen [2]) and > ‘protection for FSF’ (per @a...@gnu.org [3]) more than giving anyone an > opportunity to contribute. Are you calling for change in priorities? If > yes, I would appreciate it, if you name few concrete steps. No change of priorities, I think, but promoting non-discrimination and inclusiveness. The emphasis is on "give *opportunity* to contribute (...) *regardless* of their gender etc. (...) *harassment-free* (...)". It does not mean that bad contributions need to be accepted, or those where the copyright assignments are not done correctly, and so on. (And of course, non-free software will also be rejected; so there is no contradiction between the first point, insisting on the four freedoms, and this point.) Andreas
