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0 pointsarp2422y ago0 comments

Yes, and like I said, it took the GTK/GNOME people years of complaining to get them removed, and the GnuTLS people still aren't removed after more than 10 years of complaining. LWN and other people documented the background on all of this to some extent, and if you're interested I think I have a text file with some link/details somewhere (which I can't seen to find momentarily).

So that list is worth bugger all for the purpose of this discussion.

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mort962y ago· 1 in thread

No, it's worth quite a lot in this discussion, actually. It tells us that the GNU project considers GIMP part of the GNU project, regardless of what the GIMP project thinks. That means that the question "why does the GNU project not provide adequate resources to GIMP" is perfectly appropriate.

arp242OP2y ago

No matter what Stallman thinks, this kind of relationship is a two-way street. GNU or the FSF can't just unilaterally declare it to be "part of GNU" and then unilaterally "provide resources". Not only are they unlikely to do so if the relationship is adversarial, this sort of thing needs cooperation from the other side as well.

Either way, this is getting a little tiresome. I have explained there are disputes and complexities about what is or isn't a "GNU project" and I don't quite understand how anyone can deny that these disputes and complexities exist (regardless of how one might feel about them).

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