Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> wrote: > Proposal of a “GNU Social Contract” > > This document states the core commitments of the GNU Project to the broader > free software community. All current GNU Project members have agreed to > uphold these values.
In other words, you suggest to tighten the screws even more than @l...@gnu.org (his ‘contract’ concerns only maintainers), do you? Iʼm deeply afraid, you have to choose one of that and “GNU welcomes contributors” below. > The purpose of the GNU Project is to provide software and systems that > respect users' freedoms. > > * GNU respects users' freedoms > All software written by us is distributed under copyleft licenses, designed > to ensure that developers cannot strip off users' freedom from GNU software. Iʼd like to remind, that promoting a copyleft from a just a tool applied strategically to a unyielding principle would be in contrary to the effective recommendations published on gnu.org [1]. [1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.en.html#libraries > Besides upholding the four essential freedoms, we pay attention and respond > to new threats to users' freedom as they arise, such as services as a > software substitute (SaaSS), use of non-free scripts on web pages, mass > surveillance, digital restrictions management (DRM), etc. Yet again, only the surveillance is _besides_ four computing freedoms. SaaSS is bad exactly because it effectively provides none of them, while DRM and nonfree webapps are just nonfree programs. > * GNU welcomes contributions from all and everyone > > We want to give everyone the opportunity to contribute to our efforts on any > of the many tasks that require work. We welcome all contributors… Many GNU subprojects value ‘recordkeeping’ (per Prof. Moglen [2]) and ‘protection for FSF’ (per @a...@gnu.org [3]) more than giving anyone an opportunity to contribute. Are you calling for change in priorities? If yes, I would appreciate it, if you name few concrete steps. [2] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html [3] <e1iqgp2-0004y0...@fencepost.gnu.org>
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