Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?

[Thorsten Wilms]

On 29/10/2018 09.59, Björn Höfling wrote:
> In law, there is the term of "conduct implying an intent". So even not
> signing anything you could argue that by sending a bug or a patch you
> silently agree with the community guidelines, CoC, etc. You enter the
> community be interacting the first time. And will be judged by their
> guidelines.

It used to be that you could pick a Free Software project and send a patch.

Now sending a patch is supposed to imply agreeing to the equivalent of 
an EULA? Everyone is expected to welcome that as progress?

Again "... we as contributors and maintainers pledge ..." is bullshit. I 
pledged nothing. More pragmatic and truthful would be:

"The project owners expect everyone who contributes to the project by 
any means, or who communicates via any of the means that belong to the 
project, to stick to the rules below. Breaking the rules may lead to any 
of: a warning, rejection of contributions, a ban where and as far as 
possible."

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