Regardless of what Debian decides to do, https://rms-open-letter.github.io/ is an open letter and you are welcome to sign it.
Cheers, M. On 3/23/21 6:56 PM, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Hello, > > I hope not to be too inflamatory with this. As you are surely aware, > last week Richard Stallman was reinstated as part of the Board of > Directors of the FSF. That is something deeply disturbing and > confidence-shattering for many of us. > > Some people have moved to action -- if nothing more, at least to > express they are disgusted with the turn of events, and to say the > organizations they represent believe it to be detrimental to the FSF's > own image and projection into the future. Particularly, I mean the > following two pages, of very different nature: > > https://opensource.org/OSI_Response > https://rms-open-letter.github.io/ > > Now, as for my question: I thought repeatedly over the last couple of > days whether to start something like this in Debian... But, what would > it take for the project to issue a statement in this line? Would we > have to pass a GR? > > I am sure there is a precedent of a position statement being announced > without having a formal vote about it, but I cannot find it at the > moment. Sruthi, Jonathan: What is your take on this? If you were a DPL > today, would you feel OK issuing a position statement on behalf of the > project? > > (Of course, it is completely possible you don't share my views on > this... If so, lets make the answer hypothetical, about a "current > event" that could be happening, and for which expressing a message > with timeliness was important) > > (And yes, with this I am probably forcing you to disclose a position > on the subject... I'm sorry for that. But I think that, as a candidate > for the DPL position, knowing your position on the issue also makes > sense) >
