Re: GNUTLS is not going anywhere
[Posted December 19, 2012 by mkerrisk]
| From: |
| Eli Zaretskii <eliz-AT-gnu.org> |
| To: |
| Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav-AT-gnutls.org> |
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| Re: GNUTLS is not going anywhere |
| Date: |
| Thu, 13 Dec 2012 05:49:51 +0200 |
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| <83vcc6obkw.fsf@gnu.org> |
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| karl-AT-gnu.org, gnutls-devel-AT-lists.gnutls.org, rms-AT-gnu.org, johns-AT-gnu.org |
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> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 23:42:10 +0100
> From: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>
> Cc: karl@gnu.org, johns@gnu.org, gnutls-devel@lists.gnutls.org
>
> On 12/11/2012 09:04 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
>
> > Nikos, when you volunteered to maintain GNUTLS, the GNU Project
> > entrusted its development to you. Your contributions so far are
> > appreciated. However, the project GNUTLS does not belong to you.
> > If you want to stop doing this job, you can. If you want to develop a
> > fork of GNUTLS under another name, you can, since it is free software.
>
> I pretty much regret transferring all rights to FSF, but it seems there
> is nothing I can do to change that. If I receive a formal request from
> FSF I'll change the name of gnutls and continue from there.
With all due respect to the involved parties: since you discuss this
on a public list, may I ask to please publish the reasons for this
schism? It is sad enough to read about such unfortunate incidents in
the Free Software movement; doing so without understanding what the
heck is going on is too much.
TIA
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