On 13/11/12 22:54, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:35:17PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> (Also, Holger is not the one who will be sued because he is not a >> member of the dc13 association committee) > > I think this is an unacceptable distinction.
If we want to be technical, then I could point out that signing a contract that many people suspect to be unaffordable with the intention of bullying the vendor later may actually be a criminal matter, not just a matter of being sued. > > Whoever, if any, get sued as a representative of the Debian > Project---and people who do sign a DebConf relate contract *clearly* > qualify---will have Debian's backing, in finance, legal advice, > communication, fund-raising, ... you name it. This is so at least as > long as I'm DPL, but I'm pretty sure any future DPL will be willing to > do the same. > > So please don't go down this path. The distinction between who is a > member of the dc13 association and who is not should play no role in the > decision making process. And, more importantly, should induce no > fracture or finger pointing in the community. > That was really one little part on the end of the email. Of course, it is ridiculous that we now have a second discussion about legal action in as many months, but some people pointed out the first time around that if legal concerns are floating about, we should be looking elsewhere. _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
