On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 08:14:55AM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > I think the ARC would be derelict in its duty if it simply said "FOSS > means no expectation of source change." That may be true of some > projects, but certainly not of others, and the ARC should not be > presuming one magic answer for all cases.
Hmmm. Let me try again. For standalone utilities like Unison I don't agree. The ARC can reasonably ask lots of things (like that it be Secure By Default), but there's a fine line between asking for reasonable changes and killing the project. I think for libraries the ARC can and should be a lot more inquisitive, and potentially require many more changes. For core OS features the ARC should treat FOSS as any other Sun project.
