That definition of "malicious compliance" refers to orders that come from a superior. Why should people outside the SQLite project have standing to give such a

That definition of "malicious compliance" refers to orders that come from a superior. Why should people outside the SQLite project have standing to give such an order to the SQLite maintainers in the first place? Why should the "respectful and emphatic" response be to resign oneself to reluctant compliance, even if the SQLite maintainers disagree with it? That sounds Orwellian to me. I think that's what rubs people the wrong way about this. It all feels very authoritarian. It's expressed in language of positivity and inclusion, but it operates in terms of pressure and coercion. It all sounds great if you're aligned with all of the politics of it. If you're not, then you're the enemy: https://twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/1042249983590838272 https://twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/1042249983590838272