<p>the choice of the policy is directly related to and inspired by Servo's; both the current "no" policy, and the proposed "yes if de minimis" policy. I was aware of the proposal for quite a while before it became widespread knowledge recently and was intently waiting to see how it works out for them</p><p>as best as I can tell, the only strong view in favor of "yes" is by an outsider without contributions, Sid Askary, who claims it might hurt funding (!)</p><p>that's no way to run an open source project.</p>