Recent BBC TV news reports over several days last week have described the use of forced child labour for cotton harvesting in Uzbekistan, which is then used in t-shirts and so on, including those sold by some major shops in England like Asda/Wal-Mart.
Many debian fund-raisers sell debian t-shirts, so this might affect our project too. Do we have any knowledge about whether current debian clothes are products of forced child labour? Should we forbid forced child labour as a requirement of licensing the debian trademarks? Should we do this as part of requiring a wider standard, such as the EIT Base Code, which forbids all forced labour? Should we revoke any revocable trademark licenses of anyone not meeting this standard? Do any other DDs care about this topic? More info: Newsnight report http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/7068096.stm ETI Base Code http://www.ethicaltrade.org/Z/lib/base/index.shtml Thanks for reading, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
