On Saturday, March 17, 2012 21:53:18, Russ Allbery wrote: > Christoph Anton Mitterer <cales...@scientia.net> writes: > > In principle you're right,.. but we start to enter a path of doom if we > > censor ourself like this... > > > > You'll probably be able to find thousands of places in any distro, where > > some patent troll or content mafia organisations pretend to have > > "rights" on. > > Hence the Debian patent policy. > > We can't just ignore things like this, nor is it responsible use of > project resources to openly flaunt disobedience to laws, however > ill-conceived. But neither is it Debian policy to seek out trouble when > that trouble isn't forthcoming. > > If you do want to be part of an organization that openly disobeys stupid > laws and makes a point of civil disobedience, more power to you. I > personally will be cheering you on. But the Debian Project is not that > organization, nor is it structured to be that organization (and carefully > structuring such an organization is important). The Debian Project has > other goals, which mostly require that it work within the legal framework > that it has available while making public statements when that legal > framework interferes with project goals.
The above explains the whole reason d-m.o exists. However perhaps it also might explain the tenuous relationship d.o has with d-m.o because d.o may need to distance itself from the work d-m.o does. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201203180129.20352.chris.kna...@coredump.us