Re: sourceforge miseries

Bruno Haible <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Apr 2018 00:58:51 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.clisp.devel
Message-ID <4964832.O0SMmkbWqG@omega>
Sam Steingold wrote:
> I am afraid that they will censor our mailing lists by prohibiting
> discussions of software which they deem "non-free".
> E.g., if someone uses, say, Matlab of Netica interface to CLISP, they
> might demand that each mention of Matlab is accompanied with a political
> statement promoting the Octave alternative.

They will not censor the mailing list, but they might very well have requests
regarding the source code. See [1][2].

> I did not toe the party line back in the USSR,
> I will not do it here in the US.

+1.

Bruno

[1] https://savannah.gnu.org/register/requirements.php
[2] http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/HowToGetYourProjectApprovedQuickly/


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