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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/10/21 2:59 PM, Jacob Hrbek wrote:<br>
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<p>The freedom to <i>improve</i> the program, and release your
improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public,
so that the whole community benefits is being actively violated
by GNOME foundation[2] which is causing free software projects
to die[1] while supporting the spread of this harmful mentality
to the whole open-source field[3].<br>
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<p>As per your own references, this is not what was happening here.</p>
<p>The Bugzilla link shows that the GNOME developers rejected a
patch - they are free to do so. Your right to release your
improvements does not entail an obligation for upstream projects
to accept them. Your right is to release them downstream, through
your own channels. If the upstream project accepts the patch so
much the better, but that's for them to decide. That's how free
software has always worked.</p>
<p>As for the Stop Theming My App page, the people there don't
demand legal protections or advocate license changes that would
ban theming; they, as far I can see, *kindly request* that
distribution packagers please not break their apps' UX.</p>
<p>You can agree or disagree with such a request, but it is in no
way counter to the spirit of free software.</p>
<p>Best<br>
Carsten</p>
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Why is the FSF network not taking any action agains it?<br>
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<b>Recommendation:</b> Publicly declare GNOME fndn. non-free
developer so that distros such as debian puts their software in
`non-free` directory and spread the word about these practices.<br>
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1. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://github.com/thestinger/termite"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/thestinger/termite</a><br>
2. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679658"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679658</a><br>
3. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://stopthemingmy.app/" moz-do-not-send="true">https://stopthemingmy.app/</a><br>
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