Re: foundation-list Digest, Vol 68, Issue 13

2009-12-12 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 11-12-2009 18:20, Brian Cameron escreveu: If there is enough people to do a vote, that's great. My vote: -1 I do not think that people should be discouraged from suggesting rules for the GNOME community, and a reaction like leaving the GNU community because Richard made a suggestion could

Re: foundation-list Digest, Vol 68, Issue 13

2009-12-12 Thread Philip Van Hoof
(I'm replying the two of you at the same time in an attempt at reducing the thread's size) On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:20:50 -0600 Brian Cameron wrote: Richard's suggestion that a mild approach may be appropriate does not seem over-the-top to me. Perhaps a mild approach could be something simple

Re: foundation-list Digest, Vol 68, Issue 13

2009-12-12 Thread Brian Cameron
Philip: On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:20:50 -0600 Brian Cameron wrote: Richard's suggestion that a mild approach may be appropriate does not seem over-the-top to me. Perhaps a mild approach could be something simple like a disclaimer on planet... I don't think Richard is suggesting that as mild

Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership

2009-12-12 Thread Richard Stallman
Gnome supports both the free software movement as well as proprietary developers, and that is why Gnome for years has encouraged the use of the LGPL license for all of its libraries. The decision you and I made, in the early days, was to use the LGPL for the more basic and general

Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership

2009-12-12 Thread Richard Stallman
Is GNOME part of any anti-proprietary software movement? that terminology didn't come from me. I would rather describe what we are doing in positive terms: GNOME is part of the free software movement, which strives to give users freedom. I don't think so and I've never seen it like

Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership

2009-12-12 Thread Richard Stallman
I believe Stormy was quite clear and on point: It sounded to me as though she were arguing against the sort of prior restraint that you seem to be attempting to impose here. I think GNOME activities should not grant legitimacy to non-free software. This is a minimal form of support

Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership

2009-12-12 Thread Richard Stallman
We _were_ attempting to finalize a Code of Conduct which could be provided to speakers, in the hope of avoiding future instances of the sort of harmless fun we experienced during Mr. Stallman's keynote at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, as I recall. What happened there is that

Re: foundation-list Digest, Vol 68, Issue 13

2009-12-12 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 12-12-2009 11:31, Philip Van Hoof escreveu: On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 09:51 +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: I have a personal blog and when I asked planet.openmoko.org to add my posts, I gave them the RSS feed corresponding to posts under the tag OpenMoko. Perhaps it would be a simpler