[License-discuss] How can we as a community help empower authors outside license agreements?

[Tobie Langel]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 19:47 Russell McOrmond <russellmcormond at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 12:25 PM Tobie Langel <tobie at unlockopen.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The open source community is the community of people that contributes
>> code, documentation, tests, policy, etc. to open source projects and/or
>> chooses to use such projects. As such, they also get to define what the
>> core values of open source are. There isn't some kind of gatekeeper
>> mechanism that's there to decide what those values are or who gets to
>> decide who is part of the open source community and who isn't.
>>
>
> Whether you realise it or not, that is what you are looking for.
>

I’m really sorry you feel that way. What makes you think this is what il
looking for?

You are suggesting your values should take precedence over mine.
>

I haven’t actually talked about *my* values. I don’t think they’re super
relevant, here. I’ve talked about values that are mainstream within the
broader open source community.

Could you explain how the values I described were exclusionary to yours,
though?

I'm involved in the community for the very values which certain individuals
> wish to expunge. There is no mechanism for both communities to consider
> themselves the same community, so either values come in common or people go
> elsewhere.
>

I actually think members of this community have a lot more in common than
you’re suggesting above. For example, a lot of what you wrote in your first
email really resonates with me, as I’m sure it resonates with others. These
are shared values. I feel like we have disagreements on how those values
are best implemented. But I don’t see a that much disagreement over overall
goals. I believe the difference in implementation strategy is essentially
due to looking at technology through different lenses and coming from
different backgrounds. But I don’t really see anything irreconcilable with
that.

—tobie
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