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Last week, Phoronix broke a story about the kernel DRM group over at FreeDesktop.org submitting a pull request for their code of conduct to be included in the kernel docs for the DRM subsystem. The next day it was merged.
I'm particularly interested in if they think this will keep Linus from saying hurtful things to them over lousy code. Discuss.
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Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo
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There will be big changes for you but you will be happy.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by VLM on Monday May 08 2017, @06:51PM
That looks acceptable as per a careful read of
http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/ [contributor-covenant.org]
I believe that was very carefully written. For example referring to goat fuckers would not fly, but carefully referencing goat vomit instead is all good.
The leftist types have a pretty severe arrogance problem. I joined the military not long after it was not allowed for drill sgts to hit recruits or swear, and being rather intelligent they pretty much had free reign although technically they never did anything wrong by the letter of the law. It should be fairly trivial to maintain operations inside a politically restrictive speech code.
Obviously the point of these codes is entryism, to issue version 2.0 containing mandatory "workers of the world unite" commentary, anti-white anti-male hatred coded into the covenant, etc. But for today they're pretty lame.
My gut level guess is the main effect of attempts at entryism will be dual licensing and the death of the GPL licensed code owned by a project. The code is mine, all mine, exclusively mine, and I dual license it under the GPL as a favor, but attempt a political takeover or political fork and you'll be in violation of trademark law etc.
I remember in the 80s learning about GPL for the first time and shareware and BSDs and all that and thinking by 2020 on sheer numbers most source code isn't going to be in English its going to be Chinese so what am I going to do? However for whatever social and IQ reasons the demographics of FOSS contributors has nothing to do with the demographics of the world or computer users or computer owners. Its like a cultural appropriation thing for them to get into FOSS.