@fed500 filed Fedora-Council/tickets ticket #528. Discuss here and record votes and decisions in the ticket.
I’m not sure if welcoming contributors overrides licensing that may limit contributions. It sounds like the licensing should supersede.
(or rather it’d sound odd on a welcome page to say something like "we welcome all contributors! *except from country A, B, C, D after next year, if you’ve lived in E, East F’s current administration, etc)
But the ticket seems vague; are there specific policies currently that are in conflict? Why would sponsoring companies have anything to do with it?
RH (the owner of the Fedora brand) has to follow the restrictions when there is an embargo of exportation etc. In this case there would be restrictions, however I do not know if we are able 100% to distinguish with all the VPN Providers we do have today.
Anyway everyone who connects to the forum/infrastructure has the rights/rules we declare in the COC and has to respect them.
In the absence of real-world scenarios to consider, I do not think nor advise it as a useful exercise for the Council to speculate on hypothetical scenarios. Looking at it in the perspective of which one “supersedes” the other is not my view. Rather, how can these two things co-exist at the same time? When we have actual scenarios that demand our reaction, we will handle those as they arise.
The preamble to the Code of Conduct is also important in making an interpretation here. I think this is most important when thinking about how the Code of Conduct is implemented in Fedora. It is not a binary, black-and-white thing:
The Fedora Code of Conduct is a set of guidelines that explains how our community behaves and what we value to members and outsiders. The Code of Conduct is a living document and will be updated when and if it is deemed necessary.
The Code of Conduct is not “code” in the sense of being an algorithm or a computer program. The Code of Conduct is not “blindly and algorithmically” executed but is instead enforced by humans making real decisions based on all of the available information and using all available context.
The Code of Conduct does not seek to restrict speech or penalize non-native speakers of English. Instead the Code of Conduct spells out the kinds of behaviors we, as a community, find to be acceptable or unacceptable. The Code of Conduct is, in many ways, the outward embodiment of the Friends component of Fedora’s Foundations.
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