Josh Berkus wrote:
Ted,
If however the SPI is responsible for making a judgement call about
the murky nature of Debian politics, particularly since certain
aspects of Debian's policies and procedures are not necessarily
clearly defined (or at least subject to dispute leading to mailing
list flames that go on and on for hundreds of messages) from a legal
point of view, then SPI could get dragged into what could be a nasty,
and potentially arbitrarily expensive legal adjucation procedure.
I'm not so worried about legal culpability (how would Debian sue SPI when SPI
provides Debian's legal help?). However, I *am* worried about making the
wrong decision, and pissing off the "winners" in a long-running Debian
dispute, and thus causing Debian members to distrust SPI and call for
pulling out. This is *directly* based on my experience with the Dunc-Tank
proposal.
I really don't think that MJ and Ian realize how opaque and chaotic Debian
politics are to outsiders.
I would second that. When I researched the OpenSource.Org domain issue,
I was stunned at how convoluted and emotional everything was. Debian has
really appears to have grown (at least from an outsider view) into a
very political self spinning organization.
Joshua D. Drake
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