Code of Conduct (based on Contributor Covenant 3.0) for copyleft-next goes into effect within a week; final comments *now* please

Vasileios Valatsos me at aethrvmn.gr
Tue Jun 23 19:51:31 UTC 2026


Excuse me for the bluntness, but why? As in, who is this for? Also, in 
all honesty, who cares?

It would seem to me that there is no point to pass a CoC since there is 
no conduct to regulate? It would make much more sense if there was any 
conduct apart from the list admins informing us of the need to regulate 
conduct.

Have there been any specific instances of misbehaviour in the past year 
that would necessitate a CoC? Does anyone feel like HBR and common sense 
have been unable to regulate the current state of the mailing list?

 >I can now announce with confidence that three such people have been
found, and we are *mere days away* from having a Code of Conduct for
copyleft-next! 🥳

Ignoring the obvious disregard for HBR (i.e. see quote above), it seems 
completely pointless for this to be an action, nevermind an action 
worthy of celebration. It feels completely void of any initiative, and 
it seems the only people who have responded are more interested with the 
presentation rather than the substance of `copyleft-next`, i.e. people 
seem more focused with having a CoC rather than having any discussion 
for an attempt at a new copyleft license?

I understand the most probable response is "We will attempt to revive 
the attempt later this year", but until the mailing list is active in 
any capacity other than "we *need* to regulate a mailing list, at 
minimum for the sake of having regulation", it seems like a completely 
vacuous action.

I would use sarcasm to describe the absurdity, but this mystical 
triumvirate might retroactively decide that I violate the CoC, idk.

In any case, was this the only thing holding back `copyleft-next`; the 
lack of a CoC? What's the point of these theatrics?

- Vasileios


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