Dear Ludovic and all, > You have to understand that free software projects (in a large part) > are do-ocracy and not democracy. The people doing things decide how > they do it. > If you want to get a commit write access you shall first provide good > patches and work. It does not work in the reverse order.
Over the past years, we saw many Apple projects turning into
semi-private project. Another example is CUPS. Of course, CUPS systems
are available in Linux. But drivers are old and Apple always provides
updated drivers.
The way Apple controls open-source projects is that there is a limited
number of people with commit access, which are their employees or
contractors.
Also, the fact that you may ask money to review code and commit it to
libccid or pcsc-lite strikes me. Of course, you accept any bug fix for
free. But large companies have to pay. This is probably why some
companies prefer to publish a libccid fork and not commit to main trunk.
Therefore looking at the current OpenSC organization, I can only think
about the way things evolved at pcsc-lite and tokend.
We all agree here that OpenSC is not a semi-closed project and we ask
you and Marin to confirm that:
1) The OpenSC project is owned by the community at large, not one or two
individuals.
2) That Martin and You are system administrators and developers. As
such, you admit to serve the community. You are not the owners.
This is rather simple! Why should it be rude? We don't want OpenSC to
turn into another pcsc-lite and/or tokend, please understand.
Until you don't write "Yes I agree" to both statements, there will be a
believe in the community that you are trying to take over.
Kind regards,
--
Jean-Michel Pouré - Gooze - http://www.gooze.eu
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