Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] The GIF issue

[Loic Dachary]

Mark A Peters writes:
 > 
 > I believe Bradley had stated that a miscommunication may have existed in a
 > discussion with Dan (Seek3r), where the fact of "NO GIF's" had been
 > discussed.  And if I remember correctly, I believe you had stated that
 > when YOU had created the phpGroupWare project on SAVANNAH, you answered
 > all of the questions including the one adhering to the NO GIF's on GNU
 > sites.  So, in reality, no one who can truly speak for phpGroupWare (a
 > project administrator) has agreed to any of the GNU provisions.
 > 

        Answering the questions when registering phpGroupWare on
Savannah was my mistake yes. Let's say miscommunication on GIF was
100% Bradley's mistake. Let's also say, as you suggest, that none of
the GNU provisions was agreed upon by any phpGroupWare members.

        It looks like a conspiration of the GNU project to capture
phpGroupWare and later pretend that it has to follow rules that no
phpGroupWare leader ever agrees on.

        I wonder if there was a vote of phpGroupWare leaders to become
part of the GNU project ? If that was the case, what you suggest is that
noone in phpGroupWare was aware of what it means to become part of the GNU
project ? Or that they were fooled on purpose and that the GNU project
waited to be in a position to *impose* the rules that, all of a sudden,
were revealed ?

        I must admit that I'm a bit lost. I'd rather shut up and let
you decide. For the record, when I decided to submit my software to
the GNU project I did some extensive research of what it means, what
it implies. I discussed the various issues, I was fully aware (hard
not to be) that it implies ethical & moral issues, that GNU boycotts
GIFs, that GNU works hard to build software 100% based on Free
Software avoiding dependencies to proprietary software etc. All these
informations are publicly avaiable and were relayed by the press many
times. I thought carefully if that matched my own beliefs and then
decided to join.  Afterwards I spent (and still do) my energy to
support and enforce the GNU policy, helping it evolve when needs be.

        Take care,

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