* Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> [2020-02-23 00:05]: > Hello Eli, > > Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> skribis: > > > I always thought that maintaining a GNU project according to the > > guidelines I was communicated when I was appointed _is_ upholding GNU > > values, that it's all there is in upholding them, as applied to my job > > as the maintainer. But you seem to be saying there's something else > > there? What is that? > > Quoth RMS¹: > > GNU package maintainers have committed to do work to maintain and add > to the GNU system, but not anything beyond that. We have never > pressed contributors to endorse the GNU Project philosophy, or any > other philosophical views, because people are welcome to contribute to > GNU regardless of their views. > > The GNU Social Contract is about changing that.
May I try to see how? "GNU package maintainers have committed to do work to maintain and add to the GNU system, and they will need to commit to many other rules and regulations to become GNU package maintainers. For now we have the version 1.0. and we will be imposing onto GNU package maintainers code of conducts, and regulations in versions 2.0 and 3.0 until their behavior becomes acceptable to our non authorized GNU governance (Ludo and company). We will press contributors to endorse the GNU project philosophy, and if they don't endorse, we will ban them. We will press GNU contributors to accept other philosophical views, such as those of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract) as if they don't endorse Rousseau's Social Contract, we will ban them as GNU contributors, and finally, people will not be welcome to contribute if they have their views that do not conform to our own views, as what we think how person should live is right, and other people should have exact same thinking and behavior as we do -- as we are right, and they are wrong, so we will ban them! Ha ha ha ha Jean