GNU GNATS 4.0 beta1 released (fwd)

[Joe Buck]

> On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> > 
> > > I thought this type of decision was made by the SC, not RMS?
> > 
> > I get the impression that some things are done by RMS asking the SC in
> > secret to do something (rather than RMS raising issues of concern on the
> > public lists).
> 
> Well, it would be good to know whether bugzilla is acceptable before i do 
> more work. If it's not, i'll either pick a GPL'd starting project, or 
> rewrite bugzilla in python, or something.
> But if i don't know, i can't spend time where it's going to make me most 
> productive.

Bugzilla is free software, as defined by the FSF.  Why do you think that
RMS will raise an objection?  In any case, the SC runs the project; RMS
occasionally makes a technical request of the SC that the SC rejects.  RMS
has the power to insist that we do something based on legal issues or
fundamental free software issues (since we agreed to honor FSF principles
in the way we do development), but I don't see how he could make us not
use Bugzilla even if he wanted to.