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by nine_k 2641 days ago
It's easy.

It's my project, I will lead it the way I see fit. I decide what gets merged, what issues have priority, what gets you banned.

It's also open source. Fork it if you want, drive your fork's development the way you see fit. Now it's your problem, not mine.

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When I do eventually write a COC for my project (i.e. when more than 0 people have seen it :-) ), this is an important section that I want to write. I choose free software licenses because I want my users to be as free as I am in their choices.

I thought long and hard about why I write free software. It's not for an altruistic reason. I do it because it is something important to me. If I allow others to dictate what I should be doing, then I lose my reason to write free software. The free software license is their guarantee that no matter what crazy thing I decide to do, or say, they can carry on without me. That's as fair as I want to get.