Re: “GNU software is distributed under the terms of [copyleft] licenses” (was: A GNU “social contract”?)

2019-10-26 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Sat, 2019-10-26 at 02:35 +0300, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote: > Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > * GNU licenses uphold user freedom > > > > The GNU Project has designed software licenses to ensure developers > > cannot strip off user freedom from GNU software—“copyleft” > > licenses. GNU software is

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-26 Thread Brandon Invergo
On Mon, 2019-10-21 at 17:08 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote: > In practice GNU already is mostly a bottom-up organization, where the > GNU hackers that do the actual work shape the project, but it would be > nice to make it more formally so. As I have already described to you and the others elsewhere,