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Care to give a source for that claim?


Would love to but @izs deleted his tweets a couple of hours later.

The entire ordeal happened back in January (I think), around the same time as some other npm drama (e.g. https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3959 and https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/21 and https://github.com/nodejs/NG/issues/26, leading up to https://github.com/nodejs/NG/issues/29) -- the twitter incident gets referenced in some of the comments.

There are however plenty of comments by NPM representatives (including izs) that they see it as a moral obligation to uphold their CoC even beyond the scope of NPM itself (implying what izs proposed).

There's a fundamental divide going on between people who think open source (code, not communities) should be attached to certain moral values and those thinking it should be agnostic of social issues. Similar to the Open Source vs Free Software divide in the 1990s.

Except while the FSF was the one arguing on moral grounds before, the new movement is actually in conflict with one of the main concepts of the GPL: authors should not be able to restrict how code can be used and by whom (i.e. you can't prohibit people from using code for evil if it should be GPL compatible).




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