GNU GNATS 4.0 beta1 released (fwd)

[Daniel Berlin]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Joe Buck wrote:

> > 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?

I don't particularly.  It's just that I don't want to spend my 
time on making bugzilla acceptable from a non-philosophical standpoint, 
only to have it not be used for philosophical reasons.