Richard Stallman is the reason I didn’t start contributing to open source (then called “free software”) in the 90s. I’m not the only one. He and his followers pushed out a whole generation of female developers, just at that critical time when open source adoption was widening.https://twitter.com/alicegoldfuss/status/993677847280562178 …
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Replying to @sarahmei
he's the reason I never contributed to gnu licensed software. I had made a patch of nontrivial size for GNUstep until they wanted a waiver for IP and moral rights. I don't sign moral rights away, ever, and it ruined my faith in free software since
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Replying to @jtregunna @sarahmei
GNUstep has been my responsibility since 2008. If you submit something do it through myself or the other maintainers on the project.
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Yeah this was back in 2005 or something like that, I forget exactly when. Left a bad taste in my mouth, though nothing against the project itself, was just the assignment bit the FSF wanted.
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Replying to @jtregunna @sarahmei
Actually you don’t need to assign copyright, you can simply release the code into the public domain. The point of the assignment is so that the FSF can legally defend the source if needed.
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Ah gotcha, the channel I went through made me feel like I had to; I declined, so my patch was never submitted. All it did was use the "new at the time" C level apis to provide ipv6 support to NSHost in GNUstep's Foundation iirc :)
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