Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trouble on the horizon!

[Mark David Dumlao <madumlao@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 6:34 PM Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 24/09/2018 13:11, R0b0t1 wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 11:01 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> To me it looks like youtubers and some sites trying to make money through
> >> clickbait?
> >>
> >
> > If you had not heard of it elsewhere the Linux code of conduct was
> > amended. It makes the CoC similar to those of other projects where
> > there are a number of (usually nontechnical) contributors who identify
> > as a champion of social justice.
> > [...]
> Well, if kernel developers are fine with that, then I don't see how
> that's relevant to anyone who isn't a kernel dev. If they want to adopt
> social justice politics, that's really their prerogative.
>

Actually, social justice politics didn't seem to have anything to do
with the CoC
adoption. It was more of Linus taking a backseat (due to how he self-assessed
his vacation behavior) and pretty soon after, they adopted CoC, most likely as
some kind of "standardization"

Barely a week has passed since the CoC though, and already there are political
manuevers to oust high-profile kernel devs to the point that some contributors
have started talks on exercising their copyright privileges and
withholding their
code. Which they have a right to do, by the way, if they feel the foundation
has betrayed them.

So as esr has put it:
> First, let me confirm that this threat has teeth. I researched the relevant law
> when I was founding the Open Source Initiative. In the U.S. there is case law
> confirming that reputational losses relating to conversion of the rights of a
> contributor to a GPLed project are judicable in law. I do not know the case law
> outside the U.S., but in countries observing the Berne Convention without the
> U.S.’s opt-out of the “moral rights” clause, that clause probably gives the
> objectors an even stronger case.

(http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8139)

This is not a little online trollfest that only affects kernel devs.
This can affect
literally everything. Biblical proportions, dogs and cats living together, etc.
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