The goal of having a set of guide lines is to keep this project free of pointless distracting debates, which aren't part of the topic of making open silicon without back doors from intelligence agencies. I think that as soon as we're going to make progress, this will be something, we WILL have to fend of, so we better prepare sooner than later, because experience shows that "dividi et imperam" is a common tactics used those days in the age of informational warfare to slow down and neutralize potentially dangerous groups... and a group developing the means to decentralize the manufacturing and close all potential back doors for mass surveillance, is certainly on the list of the five edged war factory :-)
Cheers -lev
On Tuesday, August 24, 2021 2:01:59 PM WEST Johann-Tobias Aaron Raphael Schäg wrote:
Am 2021-08-23 11:16, schrieb Staf Verhaegen (FibraServi):
Op 23/08/2021 om 10:32 schreef Christoph Maier: On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 12:38 AM David Lanzendörfer leviathan@libresilicon.com wrote: OK The thing is, that we've got to make sure in the future, that questions about funding and so can be answered with the code of conduct. In order to be effective, we can not accept money where strings are attached, because we've got to make sure that we stay independent. Especially with my back ground I'd know some folks to ask for funding, but then the independence and trustworthyness of the project would be put into question. Also patents are a no-no. Also we should underline in the COD that the LibreSilicon label must not be used by people to get involved in political activism, and it doesn't matter how well ment it is.
Interestingly, a Code of Conduct is typically a well-meant (as opposed to well made) statement of political activism :-P
Ah well. Whatever it takes ...
Have you guys looked at No Code of Conduct: https://github.com/domgetter/NCoC
I don't think this code of conduct will serve community well. I thought Lanzendörfer's suggestions on disallowing repropriatorization on community controoled turf (such as maling lists) are a good idea. The call for a code of conduct came because content on the mailing list made people annoyed. _______________________________________________ Libresilicon-developers mailing list Libresilicon-developers@list.libresilicon.com https://list.libresilicon.com/mailman/listinfo/libresilicon-developers