Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You appear to have raised a valid point, in that we (the bulk of the DDs in > the UK [1]) are intent upon [...]
Where "bulk" is about 7 DDs out of 70+. Not only were other UK DDs not involved, but many of them probably haven't been told of this business being set up in their name. > To that end, we've set up a society: > http://wiki.earth.li/DebianUKSociety > the primary purpose of which is to allow us to open a bank account to hold > the mentioned funds. That disagrees with the stated primary purpose: "The purpose of the society is to promote Debian and Free Software in general." > That being the case, I (as the society's current chairman) would like to > formally request a license to use the Debian trademark in the context of > the Debian UK Society, and it's associated bank account. The "in the context of the Debian UK Society" bit seems very broad. I remind you of Phil's earlier words: >>> To present it as a fait accomplis was bound to cause bad feeling >>> [...] -- either way I don't see how we can trust them to be >>> issuing statements which will be perceived by >>> the world to have come from the project. and I ask you to apply his own judgement: >>> We should clearly protect our users from the confusion that the [...] >>> name is bound to cause by issuing a cease & desist letter forthwith. Maybe that will cause Debian-UK to become a debian subproject and/or to become a narrower-purpose fundholding-only operation. Regards, -- MJR (slef) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
