Re: Endorsing the GNU Social Contract

[Ruben Safir]

On 2/17/20 11:33 AM, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> On 2/14/20 8:45 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for your support. GCC has an FSF appointed steering committee
>> <https://gcc.gnu.org/steering.html> which is what we would
>> traditionally call the official GNU maintainers for a GNU package.
>> But given that GCC is so big they delegate responsibility to
>> maintainers for larger subsystems/packages, of which you are one.
>> I have created a special section on
>> <https://wiki.gnu.tools/gnu:social-contract-endorsement> to list
>> GNU community members like yourself who have endorsed the GNU
>> Social Contract.
> 
> Further, RMS is a member of the GCC steering committee, and I believe
> has veto power (possibly only over non-technical decisions).  So the
> likelihood of that /committee/ endorsing the Social Contract is low.
> 
> I do not know if other GNU projects have a similar oversight structure.
> 
> nathan
> 


And yes Nathan, I am fully aware that your not part of the rebellion per
se, but you are argueing for censorship...

that sucks


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