Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi,

Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> I propose to have a vote on GNOME's membership to the GNU project.

Such a vote, whatever the outcome, would have little effect on the GNOME
project.

The debate during the vote could cause a lot of harm & discord for the
GNOME community.

An outcome whereby GNOME is no longer a GNU project could cause a lot of
harm to the free software and open source movements in general - there
would be massive negative publicity.

Since there is very little up-side and substantial down-side, both real
and in terms of image (which is an important consideration, I think), I
do not think that we should vote on this issue.

Don't we have more concrete issues to address?

Cheers,
Dave.

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Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
dneary gnome org