On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 20:04 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:

I signed the code of conduct under the strict condition that there is no official enforcement of these principles, and that it should not be interpreted like a legal document.

If that changes, then please automatically unsign me first. I even wouldn't care if every single other GNOME contributor would have signed it. Even if that happens, I still wouldn't agree with an official enforcement of the principles.

My reason for that is very simple: GNOME is a multicultural world event happening. It welcomes peoples from every imaginable culture. It's not my task to question the (maybe strange for me) principles of a foreign culture. It's not my task to exclude people from our community based on cultural differences.

If signing a document would make it official, I would act as if that was exactly my task. It's not.

I do agree with the principles in the conduct. I fear that I agree only because in the Western culture where I grew up (Europe), these principles are indeed the usual ones.

Automatically unsign me once it becomes an official enforcement. I repeat again: my signature is not a tool to make these principles official. Not at all.