<div style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Courier New, Monospace; font-size: 14px;">Dear Even,</div><div style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Courier New, Monospace; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Courier New, Monospace; font-size: 14px;">when I was a child, the priest in our parish used to say that everything we do in life is political. I am not certain such direct confrontation is the best way to dissuade regular folk from voting for autocratic movements, but doing something is certainly better than doing nothing. The SpatiaLite project, for instance, is taking things even further [0]. If I am allowed to give advice on the matter, just be careful not to undermine a project for little influence on the public discourse.</div><div style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Courier New, Monospace; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Courier New, Monospace; font-size: 14px;">Take care.</div><div style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Courier New, Monospace; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Courier New, Monospace; font-size: 14px;">P.S.: as much as I am troubled with the cahos spawned by the US government, to what open source is concerned, the CRA still appears to me as the greatest challenge in the coming years.</div><div style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Courier New, Monospace; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Courier New, Monospace; font-size: 14px;">[0] <span><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/index.html">https://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/index.html</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Courier New, Monospace; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block" style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Courier New, Monospace; font-size: 14px;"><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><div>-- <br></div><div>Luís Moreira de Sousa</div><div>Mastodon: <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@luis_de_sousa" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@luis_de_sousa</a></span><br></div><div>URL: <a href="https://ldesousa.codeberg.page">https://ldesousa.codeberg.page</a></div>
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On Thursday, 20 February 2025 at 19:17, Even Rouault via Discuss <discuss@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:<br>
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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I've started an activist campaign of open source projects want to
join the protest against the US government stupid, cruel and
dangerous politics that affect the whole world ?</p>
<p>I've initiated the move with GDAL (<a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11865" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-stringify-link="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11865" class="c-link moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11865</a>
, with follow ups in <a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11875" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-stringify-link="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11875" class="c-link moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11875</a>,
<a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11876" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-stringify-link="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11876" class="c-link moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11876</a>,
<a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11877" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-stringify-link="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11877" class="c-link moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11877</a>)
, and also pushing for PROJ (<a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/pull/4406" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-stringify-link="https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/pull/4406" class="c-link moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank">https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/pull/4406</a>)
, MapServer (<a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/7233" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-stringify-link="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/7233" class="c-link moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank">https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/7233</a>)
and GEOS (<a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://github.com/libgeos/geos/pull/1243" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-stringify-link="https://github.com/libgeos/geos/pull/1243" class="c-link moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank">https://github.com/libgeos/geos/pull/1243</a>)
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<p>Anyone else ?</p>
<p>I don't agree that we should stay away from politics. Our
projects only make sense in the context of a free society, and
this freedom is at high stake. We have admittedly little power,
but we can and should exercise it with the tools at our disposal.
The addition of small little acts might end up having visible
consequences.<br>
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<p>Even<br>
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Note to current US government: stop messing with the world!</pre>
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