Comment by didibus
7 years ago
I mean, he is right about open-source only being a binding license for the source, and in this case, the Eclipse 1.0 license in no way entitle users too any kind of support, decision making authority, opinion, voice, or any other such thing.
This is just fact. You can go read the license to learn more about this: https://opensource.org/licenses/eclipse-1.0.php
That part of what Rich is saying is pretty much indisputable.
The second part, is related to what is best for Clojure. And the argument is simple, Rich says what is best for Clojure is a thorough review process of all changes to its core and standard libs, with a very high bar towards contributors and their contribution. His argument is that this has worked so far, and has created the solid piece of software that is Clojure today. Thus its own success is proof that it is a good enough process and is good for Clojure.
The argument against is that contributors find it too hard and too much work and thus very little contributors make it through the process. Though I didn't really see them mention any alternative process suggestion. It seems they were mostly wanted their patch to just be merged in without challenge.
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