It seems to me that this is a case where it is wise not to declare war and wise not to declare marriage. War helps nobody, and marriage has its risks too.
I have a lot of experience in dealing with RMS, and the very last think we want to do is get into a conversation about the question "Is GnuCash part of the GNU Project?" He will insist that the answer is yes, and begin imposing rules if he thinks it is necessary to force the "marriage". If the GnuCash developers protest hard enough, the result will only be that RMS will attempt to find a new gnucash maintainer (!) and appoint them the "official" GnuCash maintainer. Of course that doesn't affect anything directly, but it produces an instant code fork for no good reason. The current situation is happily ambiguous, in which we are all (both GnuCash and the GNU Project) reaping the benefits of a marriage without needing to enter in to all the long-term promises which that entails. Let's be very careful not to get our hackles up and declare war in our eagerness to avoid an unwanted marriage, however; and let me warn: clear statements like "we are not married and we never will be" will be interpreted by RMS as a declaration of war. Of course, that interpretation will be wrong, but it doesn't matter, because the result will be war, and it doesn't matter much whose fault the war is once it is going full swing. My suggestion is this: we tell RMS "thanks for the support and the congratulations on the release; we are excited about the future of the GnuCash project too," and then to make the trivial website modifications requested without any feeling "we are doing this because we are married and we have to." Let's just make the website modifications because this will help us maintain peace. If RMS makes a truly unreasonable demand in the future, we can address that then. But the current request poses no real problems, and so in the interests of comity, I suggest we take it up, but without saying that we are doing so in response to his message. Thomas _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
