Proposal for GNOME to exit GNU projects

Philip Van Hoef, one of the developers of the GNOME project, proposed to put to the vote among the project participants the issue of GNOME leaving the GNU Project. The main motive is Richard Stallman's attempts to impose on the project his vision of development, in which GNOME should at least obey the strict requirements of the Free Software Foundation and promote the inadmissibility of proprietary software as a phenomenon. In particular, attempts to introduce censorship for publications reflected in Planet GNOME were noted.

For example, Stallman proposed banning employees of various companies involved in the development of GNOME from mentioning the proprietary products developed by these companies in publications broadcast on Planet GNOME, unless these products are free software. As an example, it was pointed out that notes related to VMware were included in the Planet GNOME feed. Stallman tried to convince that developers have the right to write in their blogs about what they want, and Planet GNOME is only a translator of notes created by GNOME developers, and it is not always possible to filter certain publications. In response, Stallman said that GNOME is part of the GNU project and must obey its rules, and if it is not possible to filter individual notes, you can completely stop the aggregation of entries from such blogs.

To start voting, the idea needs to get approval from at least 20 project participants. Philip's initiative has already been approved by David Schlesinger, a member of the GNOME governing board, but has not been approved by Stormy Peters, the head of GNOME Foundaton, who believes that such an act will cause a negative response among users.

ps Taken from opennet.ru