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Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership

From:  Behdad Esfahbod <behdad-AT-behdad.org>
To:  foundation-list-AT-gnome.org
Subject:  Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership
Date:  Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:56:52 -0500
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

On 12/14/2009 04:34 PM, Vincent Untz wrote:

> Also, the GNU project is not the FSF. When reading the thread, I have
> the feeling that some people want the GNOME project to not be part of
> the FSF, or to disagree with the FSF. The GNOME Foundation is part of
> the FSF, and we sometimes disagree with the FSF, and we're all fine this
> way.

Humm, *now* I'm confused.  What does it mean that "The GNOME Foundation is
part of the FSF"?

As for "GNOME being a GNU project", what that means is explained here:

  http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html

behdad

 (Note that the FSF is an advisory board member of the GNOME
> Foundation, though, and it's valuable one that we're happy to have). I
> think Andy wrote more on this [1], but I didn't take the time to read
> his post so I won't put words in his mouth :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Vincent
>
> [1] http://wingolog.org/archives/2009/12/13/gnu-gnome-and-the...
>


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