Re: Endorsing the GNU Social Contract

On 2/14/20 8:45 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote:

> Thanks for your support. GCC has an FSF appointed steering committee
> <https://gcc.gnu.org/steering.html> which is what we would
> traditionally call the official GNU maintainers for a GNU package.
> But given that GCC is so big they delegate responsibility to
> maintainers for larger subsystems/packages, of which you are one.
> I have created a special section on
> <https://wiki.gnu.tools/gnu:social-contract-endorsement> to list
> GNU community members like yourself who have endorsed the GNU
> Social Contract.

Further, RMS is a member of the GCC steering committee, and I believe has veto 
power (possibly only over non-technical decisions).  So the likelihood of that 
/committee/ endorsing the Social Contract is low.

I do not know if other GNU projects have a similar oversight structure.

nathan

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Nathan Sidwell