According to Wikipedia, Politics:
> is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals
One of the standard by laws for clubs here is "not bound to political party", i.e we had a few extreme right wing people and many left wing and a great mass of moderate.
GNU GPL is political, every choice you do in computers have a political component. You choose if you allow piracy, black hats, surveillance, alcohol, meat, veganism etc. These are political decisions that will effect the feel of your club, even if you actively do not care about a decision.
The important part is that the club needs to survive and it only does that if you manage to find new people who wants do stuff, and put partisanship aside.