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Can anyone give some context info? Was there some conflict between GNU and nano that has now been resolved? What was it about?
by hannob 10y ago
Can anyone give some context info? Was there some conflict between GNU and nano that has now been resolved? What was it about?
- wongarsu 10y agoNano's new maintainer (Benno) didn't like GNU's maintainer agreement and refused to assign copyright of his contributions to the FSF. So instead he forked the project to maintain it ouside of GNU. HN discussion from two months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11953044 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11953044
- Ianvdl 10y agoSome additional background - Why the FSF gets copyright assignments from contributors: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.en.html https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.en.html
- wongarsu 10y agotl;dr: for GPL enforcement.
- davidgerard 10y agoWhich has been mostly okay with widely-distributed ownership, but was a problem in Christoph Hellwig's case against VMware recently. So there's an actual problem of enforceability, versus the project-hampering PITA factor of CLAs at all, e.g. https://lwn.net/Articles/443989/ https://lwn.net/Articles/443989/ It's a seriously tricky balance issue.
- a3n 10y agoAs mentioned in the post, it was about differences over copyright assignment, which has apparently been resolved. The wikipedia page says slightly more about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_nano https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_nano