Hello Mark, On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 01:42:13PM +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > Mark Wielaard <m...@klomp.org> skribis: > > > Yes, I believe we are nitpicking at this point. And we do seem to > > > agree. But if we are nitpicking anyway, then I would keep it short and > > > to the point. Shorter is better: > > > > > > The GNU Project adopts policies that encourage and enable developers > > > to actively defend user freedom. These policies include using > > > /copyleft licenses/, designed to ensure that users’ freedoms cannot > > > be stripped off, when appropriate.
this looks very good to me now! The paragraph posed problems since we tried to define a consistent policy, and our current practice is somewhat ad-hoc, with a few exceptions when there are good reasons. I think your text captures the spirit better, and allows for concrete policies to potentially be defined elsewhere. > Thanks. Attached is an updated version and a diff with this change and > a few other small nitpicks mainly aimed at making the text more > concise. Great, this all looks good to me. > - Remove extra explanations from the Four Essential Freedoms. > They are self-evident and make the text longer than necessary. At the same time, it was nice to have them in for the discussion and for reference :-) Thanks for working on the document, personally I am happy with it now. Andreas