Re: Endorsement of the GNU Social Contract

* Andrej Shadura [2020-02-17 22:41]: > I, the maintainer of package GNU indent, endorse version 1.0 of the GNU > Social Contract, available at: > Please, that subject is not related to GNU, it is political group of people who would like to get

Re: State of the GNUnion 2020

Hello, On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 06:30:22PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > And then we have Guile, whose development pace leaves a lot to be > > > desired, if we really want it to become the GNU standard extension > > > languages. Strangely, the Guile developers, including Andy Wingo, > > >

Re: The General Public Licence (GPL) as the basic governance tool

As a GNU user, you may not know it but GNU maintainers do not currently agree to uphold the free software values that we care about; they merely agree to more specific GNU policies. It is intentional, since the GNU project doesn't want to exclude anyone from becoming a GNU maintainer.

Re: State of the GNUnion 2020

Thought experiment: what would GNU be if all of its packages stopped developing? Dead, right? Software that can be run, studied, redistributed, and modified is in a state that is strarkly different than matter that is decaying in an irreversiable chemical reaction -- i.e. death. So lets

Re: State of the GNUnion 2020

> From: Andy Wingo > Cc: gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 21:37:55 +0100 > > I agree also! This sort of activity is natural in a project that > engages in self-reflection. If a project has leadership, then naturally > leadership would be conducting the exercise. Do you

Re: The General Public Licence (GPL) as the basic governance tool

Hi Christophe, Christophe Poncy skribis: > Simple user here. > > On 2/16/20 20:28 PM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >> Of course it is a personal choice for every one of us whether or not to >> uphold these basic GNU values. I know that GNU maintainers are not >> required to adhere or uphold even