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On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 6:34 PM Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 24/09/2018 13:11, R0b0t1 wrote: |
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> > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 11:01 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> |
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> >> To me it looks like youtubers and some sites trying to make money through |
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> >> clickbait? |
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> >> |
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> > If you had not heard of it elsewhere the Linux code of conduct was |
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> > amended. It makes the CoC similar to those of other projects where |
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> > there are a number of (usually nontechnical) contributors who identify |
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> > as a champion of social justice. |
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> > [...] |
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> Well, if kernel developers are fine with that, then I don't see how |
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> that's relevant to anyone who isn't a kernel dev. If they want to adopt |
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> social justice politics, that's really their prerogative. |
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Actually, social justice politics didn't seem to have anything to do |
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with the CoC |
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adoption. It was more of Linus taking a backseat (due to how he self-assessed |
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his vacation behavior) and pretty soon after, they adopted CoC, most likely as |
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some kind of "standardization" |
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Barely a week has passed since the CoC though, and already there are political |
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manuevers to oust high-profile kernel devs to the point that some contributors |
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have started talks on exercising their copyright privileges and |
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withholding their |
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code. Which they have a right to do, by the way, if they feel the foundation |
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has betrayed them. |
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So as esr has put it: |
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> First, let me confirm that this threat has teeth. I researched the relevant law |
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> when I was founding the Open Source Initiative. In the U.S. there is case law |
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> confirming that reputational losses relating to conversion of the rights of a |
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> contributor to a GPLed project are judicable in law. I do not know the case law |
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> outside the U.S., but in countries observing the Berne Convention without the |
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> U.S.’s opt-out of the “moral rights” clause, that clause probably gives the |
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> objectors an even stronger case. |
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(http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8139) |
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This is not a little online trollfest that only affects kernel devs. |
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This can affect |
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literally everything. Biblical proportions, dogs and cats living together, etc. |
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Response needed: [ ] yes [ ] up to you [x] no |
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Time-sensitive: [ ] immediate [ ] soon [x] none |
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