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| DATE | 2020-02-17 |
| FROM | Nathan Sidwell
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Endorsing the GNU Social Contract
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On 2/14/20 8:45 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Thanks for your support. GCC has an FSF appointed steering committee
> which is what we would
> traditionally call the official GNU maintainers for a GNU package.
> But given that GCC is so big they delegate responsibility to
> maintainers for larger subsystems/packages, of which you are one.
> I have created a special section on
> to list
> GNU community members like yourself who have endorsed the GNU
> Social Contract.
Further, RMS is a member of the GCC steering committee, and I believe has veto
power (possibly only over non-technical decisions). So the likelihood of that
/committee/ endorsing the Social Contract is low.
I do not know if other GNU projects have a similar oversight structure.
nathan
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