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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: org mode moves to GNU emacs core
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Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adfeno@openmailbox.org> writes:

> I have just thought of some more advantages and disadvantages too.
>
> * Strengths
>
> ** One less split in development effort
>
> This one explains itself. Also, for a related article against "forking",
> "bundling", and "reinventing the wheel" practices, see
> [[https://wingolog.org/archives/2015/11/09/embracing-conways-law]].
>
> * Threats
>
> ** People who still refuse to contribute to GNU Emacs for some reason
>
> I have seem people making completely separated projects from GNU Emacs
> due to concerns of being required to assign copyright to the
> FSF. However, first and foremost, I must add that I'm in favor of doing
> such assignment, because FSF is a charity organization --- not just a
> non-profit ---, and they, together with other organizations, do
> community-oriented copyleft enforcement, not the
> "average"/"extortion-based" copyleft enforcement.
>

Whoa: some of what you describe exists (see e.g.
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/jul/19/patrick-mchardy-gpl-enforcement/),
but it is a distant outlier. Calling it "average" is as inaccurate as
calling Pele an "average" footballer.

-- 
Nick