On GNOME and "RMS Open Letter"

• rms-open-letter

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GNOME Foundation. Looking through the pull requests I only find this one pull request by Regina Nkemchor Adejo (plus a duplicate of that pull request). That's only about her personally, not the whole foundation. Has the GNOME Foundation as a whole decided that they want to be on that list, and just sent the maintainer an email? I don't know, can't verify that. No word about this on the official GNOME Foundation website.

• obs-studio

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  OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording

  

OBS Project. I only find this pull request by the user "VodBox", asking to add the whole project to the list. This user has contributed to the project, but by far not as much as others. Did they have an internal discussion and agreed to sign this as the organization? Possible, but I can not verify that. No word about this on the official OBS website.

• InfluxDB

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• gnuradio

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  GNU Radio – the Free and Open Software Radio Ecosystem

  

GNU Radio. I only find this pull request by user "dkozel". This user has contributed to the project, but by far not as much as others. Again, was there an internal discussion and they decided collectively? Again, no idea, and no way to verify. Nothing about this on their website.

• rms-support-letter

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What kind of transparency I am looking for? Simply a way for me as an outsider to verify those on the list actually want to be on the list. Like it's the case with those added via pull requests. Actually you can take a look at the support letter for RMS, they saw that problem before I even wrote this. You can add yourself to that list via pull request or by sending a signed patch via email. The maintainer does not simply add a bunch of names that they got by email, without anyone being able to verify those. No matter your stance on the topic (your obviously opposed to that letter): It's just a way better technical solution regarding transparency.

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