We could define âmemberâ as someone who signed the social contract, but thatâs probably not enough: a group of people could make a hostile takeover by signing it en masse. So there needs to be some form of cooptation to avoid that, as is commonly done in organizations.
A GNU project member, be them contributors, or maintainers, have never been required to sign anything to consider themselves members of the GNU project. Asking them to do so now would be unfriendly and counter productive. The sentence that GNU members have agreed to anything should be dropped completely, because that is not true. In the GNU project everyone is welcome, even people who do not share the goals and philosophy of the GNU project. I guess that leads to a new sub-task: defining the procedure to become a âmemberâ of the project. You send a patch, you contribute documentation, you work on Savannah, you don't sign or agree to anything to become a member of the GNU project. Please stop creating barriers, and hinders for people to contribute to GNU.
