The text of the joint statement of the developers on the GNU project appeared on the planet.gnu.org website.
We, the undersigned maintainers and developers of GNU, must thank Richard Stallman for his decades of work in the free software movement. Stallman constantly emphasized the importance of the freedom of the computer user and laid the foundation for his dream to become a reality by starting the development of GNU. We are sincerely grateful to him for this.
However, we must also acknowledge that Stallman's behavior over the years undermined the core value of the GNU project: empowering all computer users. GNU is not fulfilling its mission if the behavior of its leader repels the majority of those we want to reach out to.
We believe that Richard Stallman cannot single-handedly represent all of GNU. The time has come for the GNU maintainers to collectively decide on the organization of the project. The GNU project we want to build is one that everyone can trust to protect their freedom.
The appeal was signed by 22 people:
- Ludovic Courtes (GNU Guix, GNU Guile)
- Ricardo Wurmus (GNU Guix, GNU GWL)
- Matt Lee (GNU Social)
- Andreas Enge (GNU MPC)
- Samuel Thibault (GNU Hurd, GNU libc)
- Carlos O'Donell (GNU libc)
- Andy Wingo (GNU Guile)
- Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso (GNU Octave)
- Mark Wielaard (GNU Classpath)
- Ian Lance Taylor (GCC, GNU Binutils)
- Werner Koch (GnuPG)
- Daiki Ueno (GNU gettext, GNU libiconv, GNU libunistring)
- Christopher Lemmer Webber (GNU MediaGoblin)
- Jan Nieuwenhuizen (GNU Mes, GNU LilyPond)
- John Wiegley (GNU Emacs)
- Tom Tromey (GCC, GDB)
- Jeff Law (GCC, Binutils - not signing on behalf of the GCC Steering Committee)
- Han-Wen Nienhuys (GNU LilyPond)
- Joshua Gay (GNU and Free Software Speaker)
- Ian Jackson (GNU adns, GNU userv)
- Tobias Geerinckx-Rice (GNU Guix)
- Andrew Shadura (GNU indent)
Source: linux.org.ru