[VOTE] Adoption of Code of Ethics and Fiduciary Duties

Hi @sophi ,

A strange accusation indeed. Could you expand please, where I’m asking for the bylaws to violate the statutes?

I don’t think it is appropriate to put words into my mouth here. All I said, is that the statutes (as the sole constitution of the foundation) do not require gratis downloads for all of TDF’s software, as @floeff seems to claim.

So if you want to argue in favour of gratis, please do that without pointing to the statutes. And as others have already mentioned, even the (carefully weighted) wording in the New Manifesto, that John was authoring, is quite different from the blunt absolutism we now find in the Code of Ethics.

Indeed I have read the New Manifesto, and I have read, reviewed & edited (parts of) the statutes. And I certainly object against turning TDF into a Freeware Foundation, by sneaking this wording into a Code of Ethics and making it an article of faith for all members. It will undo decades of work by others, and not a single FLOSS license requires it.

Finally, and to make it clear: I’m not against free binary downloads per se. I’m against requiring them, everywhere, for everything TDF does.

Best, Thorsten