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Re: Communication problems and possible problems with the website
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Russell Adams |
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Re: Communication problems and possible problems with the website |
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Fri, 25 Feb 2022 16:08:56 +0100 |
On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 02:24:53PM +0000, c.buhtz@posteo.jp wrote:
> Dear Ihor
>
> Am 25.02.2022 15:18 schrieb Ihor Radchenko:
> > Org has no official GitHub page. This is partially a requirement from
> > Free Software Foundation:
> > https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#References
>
> I totally and absolute support that FSF requirement.
>
> In that case I would say org-mode does violate that requirement because
> there is a GitHub and a PayPal link on the landing page.
Those are links to supporting our maintainers. Not a project repo.
> And on the Worg page (which is "official" from the new users point
> of view) there is also a GitHub link. It does not matter that there
> is not code on GitHub and that this is only for
> sponsoring/donations. You have the link and the logo so you
> "promote" that stuff that the FSF do not want you to promote.
I think that's a bit hazy, as they are services and not software. The
standards specify not to promote non-free software. While I don't like
Github at all, in this context it's only for the sponsorship
solution. That's a service like Paypal.
I'm not sure what a clear answer is here. I don't like having any
mention of Github and non-free services myself, but I respect that we
need to support the maintainers and that may require using common
services.
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- Re: Communication problems and possible problems with the website, Russell Adams, 2022/02/25
- Re: Communication problems and possible problems with the website, Ihor Radchenko, 2022/02/25
- Re: Communication problems and possible problems with the website, c . buhtz, 2022/02/25
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- Re: Links to javascript-based websites from orgmode.org: Paypal and Github, Ihor Radchenko, 2022/02/26
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