In fairness to Sergio, I think his point was that though he might not want to take Debian to court other bad actors might and could. Would this discussion have developed differently had it been IBM's legal inquiring rather than Sergio? :)
Can't help be reminded of the problems Slashdot had with someone posting "circumvention" techniques to the MS Kerberos hack download, as well as the specs. I don't have the subscription reply handy but shouldn't be burdensome to draft something absolving Debian and list maintainers of liability and explicating list distribution policies. I agree the issue is exhausted, if it's decided not to add an explicit policy statement on archiving and distribution of ML posts but... Boy Scouts of America Motto: Be Prepared. > [..] > > This sounds distinctly like blackmail. I advise against continuing in > this vein. > > sam th --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > and > Ooh, invoke the Microsoft card! Microsoft really wants to take a > pointless antitrust action at this point and really want to drag > their name through the mud again, to possibly take out a very > minor competitor. > > I think these messages have gotten beyond the point of productivity, > and this should be my last one. > > -- > David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
