Re: [gentoo-project] Call for Agenda Items -- Council Meeting 2015-10-11

[Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@gentoo.org>]

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Hi,

On Sat, 10 Oct 2015 17:41:57 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Ciaran McCreesh
> <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 10 Oct 2015 21:56:52 +0300
> > Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >> 1) GitHub _was already blocked_ in several countries [1]. We are an
> >> international community, thus we can't rely on such resource.
> >
> > And no doubt Gentoo will be blocked at some point, if it becomes
> > popular enough and continues to include software which upsets people.
> 
> Of course, the whole point of the social contract is that if Gentoo is
> ever "blocked" or taken over by a hostile interest, etc, then
> everything of value that makes us what we are is already FOSS.
> 
> Ideally we should get to a state where all of infra (minus things like
> credentials or personal info) is documented and trivial for anybody to
> copy.  That would both make it easier for others to contribute and
> make it easy to roll your own Gentoo should that be useful.
> 
> We haven't really pushed for a copyright attribution solution, but
> even there we were looking at something like the FSFe FLA which is
> designed to prevent being held hostage by a hostile owner (maybe the
> trustees lose their minds or somebody sues Gentoo, prevails, and is
> awarded all our copyrights).
> 
> In any case, I think the arguments have been hashed out.  FWIW I fully
> support the social contract and the importance of building on FOSS.
> At the same time, we should be pragmatic when somebody comes along
> with a largely-free solution and nobody else is stepping up with a
> completely-free alternative.  I suspect we'll manage to find a
> reasonable compromise.
 
FSF announced GNU ethical criteria for code repositories:
https://www.fsf.org/news/gnu-ethical-repo-criteria
https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria.html

We should take it into consideration as well. I really doubt that
GitHub will be able to pass even C class check :) Such check are
under way right now.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko

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