Hi all, > 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.
The email in question was sent to GNU maintainers and can be found here: https://wiki.gnu.tools/git/gnu-tools-wiki/plain/code/sc-email.txt The goal of this document is to state the core values GNU maintainers and uploaders and contributors who have endorsed it are committed to uphold. It is both an agreement among us, GNU contributors, and a pledge to the broader free software community. Additionally, we think it can be a first step towards formalizing a transparent and collective governance of the GNU Project. Version 1.0 can now be found here: https://wiki.gnu.tools/gnu:social-contract > 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 philosophical views, because people are welcome to contribute to > GNU regardless of their views. > > To change that -- to impose such requirements -- would be radical, > gratuitous, and divisive Feedback like this was given by multiple people, and we do not intend to make endorsing the document a condition for contribution to any GNU package. The GSC simply defines the core values of the GNU Project. Based on feedback several changes were made to the final document as can be seen here: https://wiki.gnu.tools/gnu:gsc-feedback > The wiki that they set up "for GNU maintainers" represents them We setup gnu.tools on request of several GNU maintainers. Please see https://wiki.gnu.tools/start and https://wiki.gnu.tools/wiki:admin to see how it works and if you want to use it. Cheers, Mark
