Colby Russell writes:
> This software might be open source and use the open source development
> model, but it won't be free software
>
> If that's the case, then it has to be true that the four freedoms are
> necessary but not sufficient to say that a piece of software is free
>
A few months ago, I wrote a post about how sufficient free software /
the four freedoms are.
On 10/22/19 1:08 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> It has already its constitution in GNU manifesto and other articles of
>> free software philosophy as written by Dr. Richard M. Stallman.
>
> Can we distill this
Hi Carlos,
"Carlos O'Donell" skribis:
> A governance model would apply to all of the people who are part of
> the GNU Project, and so discussing these two points makes sense to me.
> I look forward to any feedback about this.
Not surprisingly, I agree that GNU could benefit from a better
I agree. I think in practice many (most?) maintainers not only agree to
uphold the free software values, but also share them.
In practise, we cannot know -- making the assumption is dangerous. It
also excludes people who still wish to contribute to the GNU project
but have a different set
RMS is a bus factor of one.
That is true, and that is something that is already being worked on on
reducing. None of this was a grave issue last year, 5 years ago, or
10 years ago it can surley wait a while more. So a bit of patience.
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Hello,
Mark Wielaard skribis:
> For my own GNU project (some years ago) we did use savannah, but we
> had to give up on lists.gnu.org because it just didn't scale to the
> volume of email that we produced. Savannah didn't provide a wiki, so we
> set one up ourselves, etc. We had setup our own
I wanted to kick off a conversation about what is a governance model,
and to whom it would apply.
A governance model would apply to all of the people who are part of
the GNU Project, and so discussing these two points makes sense to me.
I look forward to any feedback about this.
What is a
On Tue, 2019-10-22 at 14:00 -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 1:55 PM DJ Delorie wrote:
> > Even if we all agree on the "big picture simple answer" the details and
> > "best practices" are just as important.
> >
> > Do you have any suggestions for filling in these details?
On Tue, 2019-10-22 at 14:54 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> Well, that covers quite a bit. Not all of it, I assume. That might
> be enough for projects that live 100% in the gnu.org domain, but not all
> do. The ones that do, just need to check that they really are, and the
> ones that don't, need a
