On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 07:52:40AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > What makes it even worse is that on debian.org websites we claim to not > sell products yet at the *Debian* booth at whichever UK expos DUS goes > to we *are* selling products. It seems pretty likely that the sponsored > booth is in Debian's name, either explicitly or as Debian-UK with the > assumption that Debian-UK is the UK branch of Debian.
I saw products being sold at LinuxTag's debian booth, and saw no major problem with that. > > .From my overview of this discussion, it is just a petty person dispute > > between the "in" people and the "out" ones, and some critiziscm at the fact > > that debian-uk was setup slopily and in a way which may make random UK based > > DD liable (altough i guess any court would take the reasonable approach over > > the opt-out thingy, and not make those co-opted members liable, but IANAL). > > I believe there is some animosity due to the opt-out issue but that's > not what I'm focused on since it's not terribly interesting. There are > some important issues here regarding Debian's non-commercial stance and > use of its name in other countries. Come on, be serious, selling a few tshirts and stuff during a couple yearly expos and having the benefit go to debian is hardly what anyone serious minded mentions as commercial when speaking about debian. The problem would appear if there was a large volume being made, if the profit didn't go exclusively to debian, and such. > > So, go solv your internal and interpersonal affairs between yourselves, or > > bring some more real problems here that warrant this long flamewar :) > > It might help to point out that I'm not in the UK.. He, thanks, i didn't know that. Anyway, if you are serious about getting this stuff cleared out, make a policy proposal, but please stop this name calling non-sense. If the proposal is good, it will either be adopted, or we can vote on this, but i guess this would further ridiculie us in the face of the world than this thread already does. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
