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@ramin_hal9001@emacs.ch This is not why I argue that everything has politics involved.But that is what you're doing in this very thread. You're doing it in this very post, too.You are not charging money for itYou argue that charging money is political, and not charging money is political. No matter what I chose, it must be political, even though I explained clearly how there are very much non-political reasons to make source code publicly available. In your reasoning, everything is always political, no matter what you do. Therefore, it has 0 meaning to call something political.People should be allowed to voice political disagreement without being attackedI agree, but let's not pretend that going into a project's mailing list to voice your political opinion is the right place to do so. I can voice my political disagreements in many other places than a code repository, places which are inherently more appropriate. I can do so right here, on a platform that is actually meant for people to just talk to each other about anything they want to talk about.

A code repository is not a public square, it's a particular place with a very particular goal: To host code to fix a problem. This problem can be political, but more often than not the problem is an annoyance of someone.

Likewise, I don't think anyone should be attacked for wanting their software itself to not be political in nature. Harassing a community because one of the developers disagrees on political points has become the norm, it is exactly what the OP of this thread was calling for. I don't think that's a good thing, and I find it strange that people who openly state they are in favour of many positive inclinations towards community building forget all of those inclinations the moment someone comes along whom they disagree with.

If I accept someone's contribution, I take the code at face value. I don't care whether the contributor is pro-palestine or pro-israel. I don't care whether they want to build a wall. I don't care about those things, because the code is not political, and it does not impose on my political views in any way.