Sebastian Kayser <[email protected]> writes: > * Philip Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2011/2/9 Maciej Blizi??ski <[email protected]>: >> > 2011/2/9 Philip Brown <[email protected]>: >> >> >> >> Most of our policies are already written up. You make it sound like we >> >> are facing a choice of either writing hundreds of pages ourselves, or >> >> copying wholesale from debian. >> >> This is a false choice. Most of the policies we need, we already have >> >> written up. >> > >> > Please point me at our abstract and copyright notice. >> > >> >> I did say "most", not "all". >> >> But since you bring those things up: >> Do we really *need* a copyright notice? Why? Are we deathly afraid >> someone is going to "steal" our policies, and.... what, exactly? > > Is there any harm in having a license? No. So please focus on the > relevant parts. > >> I'm also not sure what is the huge need for "an abstract". or even if >> there is, why this is so difficult to do ourselves quickly and easily. >> Going by >> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ >> their "abstract" consists of two lines, which basically say, "This is >> the policy manual. Stuff in debian, needs to follow debian policy.". > > If you guys start to discuss whether the _abstract_ (i.e. not even > actual policies) needs to be 2 or 5 lines long I feel that the policy > team isn't off to a good start.
I agree with you. This is exactly what I'm afraid when such noise is raised about 10 lines of text. Sterile divagation about license, copying, patrimony, &c. This is clearly a policy of obstruction. -- Peter _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
