> That is no different than a GNU maintainer buckling down on some > specific technical decision.
Except that it's not how the glibc community worked since it rebooted in 2010-2011. I don't remember an instance in the last almost decade of my involvement that a maintainer buckled down in the manner you seem to find acceptable. Indeed, I don't find it at all reasonable how some glibc maintainers buckled down, ignored GNU polices that they agreed to follow -- you can take that as comment from a fellow glibc developer (even if only on paper). GNU maintainers take technical decisions, not decisions of policy. The GNU project is a project that is about software ethics and morals first and foremost. That includes objecting to absurd laws that can affect our work, and our tradition has always been to make jokes out of them.
