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Re: [PATCH] Improve adherance to the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines
- From: Richard Stallman <rms at gnu dot org>
- To: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 21:00:17 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve adherance to the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines
- References: <xna7n4u06l.fsf@greed.delorie.com>
- Reply-to: rms at gnu dot org
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> For the sake of completeness, could you please point out where in the
> GNU manifesto or the FSF's core philosophy this is spelled out?
I recall that the FSF made a statement about this, around 20 years
ago, in an central and visible place (at that time). But I was unable
to find it now. So I stated this in new section in the GNU coding
standards about not talking about unrelated political issues in GNU
packages.
I've
> been participating in the GNU/FSF project for many decades, and all
> along I thought it was about software's freedom, not people's freedom.
Software freedom means freedom for users in regard to the software.
So it is a kind of people's freedom. The programs that exist today
are not qualified to be considered persons, so they wouldn't be able
to exercise freedoms themselves.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)