Working together and gaining trust

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On 2026-02-17 18:50, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2026, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org> wrote:
> 
>> say that we will ensure that if we're made aware of anything that goes
>> against the principles of our community (which implicitly includes
>> Free Software principles) we will do whatever it takes to remedy that,
>> including moving infrastructure out if needed.
> 
> That's great news.  Can you share what has changed recently that brought
> about this commitment to avoid the various means of denying users
> control over their computing, from NDAs and denial of sorce code and
> restrictive licenses to technical measures and SaaSS arrangements so as
> to preserve our freedoms?

The use of FOSS for all services we use is condition 0 for us, which in 
our case would be git, gitolite and mailing list using mlmmj (and BBB, 
which we have been using for some years now)  on a GNU/Linux based 
system.  I don't see any conflicts with our Free Software principles in 
this.

As for SaaSS, your definition keeps changing around based on who the 
parties involved are, so I'm afraid I don't see a serious point being 
made at all.  If glibc ever decides to use a forge, we would first pilot 
it with the sourceware instance, so maybe at that point you could try 
and come up with a SaaSS guideline that the community can review, 
hopefully without the inherent hatred towards specific individuals or 
organizations.

Sid