Re: [r...@gnu.org: What's GNU -- and what's not]

2020-02-09 Thread John Darrington
On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 01:37:56PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: > > 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

Re: [r...@gnu.org: What's GNU -- and what's not]

2020-02-09 Thread Jean Louis
* Federico Leva (Nemo) [2020-02-09 11:07]: > I'd like to stress a passage which made me think quite a bit: > > > 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

Re: [r...@gnu.org: What's GNU -- and what's not]

2020-02-09 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
"People are always free to publish what they think" This is, and has always been a one sided discussion from them. It can can be seen in how they demand that GNU maintainers pledge their allegiance, that one has to agree to a code of conduct which has been rejected in how we handle issues of

Re: [r...@gnu.org: What's GNU -- and what's not]

2020-02-09 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
I'd like to stress a passage which made me think quite a bit: 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. To change that -- to impose such requirements --

Re: [r...@gnu.org: What's GNU -- and what's not]

2020-02-08 Thread Ruben Safir
On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 01:37:56PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: > Hello, > > a...@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) skribis: > > > From: "Richard Stallman (Chief GNUisance)" > > Subject: What's GNU -- and what's not > > To: r...@gnu.org > > Date: Tue, 4

Re: [r...@gnu.org: What's GNU -- and what's not]

2020-02-08 Thread Andreas R.
Hi, On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 01:37:56PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Thank you Alfred for forwarding this message. I suppose it was sent to > a subset of the maintainers since I didn’t receive it. > > > You may have recently received an email asking you to review a > > document titled "GNU

Re: [r...@gnu.org: What's GNU -- and what's not]

2020-02-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, a...@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) skribis: > From: "Richard Stallman (Chief GNUisance)" > Subject: What's GNU -- and what's not > To: r...@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 18:26:51 -0500 (2 days, 11 hours, 43 minutes ago) > > The GNU Project is sending this

Re: [r...@gnu.org: What's GNU -- and what's not]

2020-02-07 Thread Carlo Wood
? Or am I wrong? Anyway - here is what I replied before (this time leaving out the quote): ==begin of what is missing from archive=== From: Carlo Wood To: a...@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) Cc: gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org Subject: Re: [r...@gnu.org: What's GNU -- and what's not] Date

Re: [r...@gnu.org: What's GNU -- and what's not]

2020-02-07 Thread Carlo Wood
On Thu, 06 Feb 2020 01:36:07 -0500 a...@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) wrote: > The GNU Project is sending this message to each GNU package > maintainer. > > You may have recently received an email asking you to review a > document titled "GNU Social Contract" and then to endorse it or reject > it.

[r...@gnu.org: What's GNU -- and what's not]

2020-02-05 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
--- Begin Message --- The GNU Project is sending this message to each GNU package maintainer. You may have recently received an email asking you to review a document titled "GNU Social Contract" and then to endorse it or reject it. It does not entirely accord with the GNU Project's views. It