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by vog
3451 days ago
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> could have accepted that the maintainer wanted to take libreboot out of the GNU project without prolonging the whole thing If I read the FSF statements correctly, there were very good reasons for taking some time, which I found quite convincing. For instance, they were looking for a new maintainer of this GNU project, especially since GNU projects belong to GNU/FSF, not to the individual maintainers. The maintainers are free to step down and let other maintainers continue a project. Would it have been more professional if they had thrown away their management process for GNU projects in this single case? |
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The only documentation that I see[0] about this just says "The program remains a GNU package unless/until the GNU project decides to decommission it.", but that's not a legal document. Assigning the copyright to the FSF would be a good indicator, but is not actually required to be a GNU package. So unless they have some other document to sign, then this seems to be a mutual contract which can be terminated by either party at any time. I don't know if that document exists (if it does, you'd think they'd link it on that page so people could review it), but if it doesn't, then I don't see any reason why the original submitter can't revoke GNU package status, like any other business relationship.
[0] - https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.en.html