Ian Jackson <[email protected]> writes: > Russ Allbery writes:
>> Personally, I think there would be a lot of merit in holding a GR on >> that as well. Legal issues are always highly contentious, and it's >> easier to tell people to follow that position with their Debian work >> when it's been voted on as a GR. > I disagree on this one, at least in its current form. The Software > Patents document is a mixture of position statement (for outsiders to > see what our view is) and internal process advice (for insiders and > allies to know what to do). > I don't think the latter should be the subject of a GR. Otherwise the > logical conclusion is that we may end up voting on the developers' > reference. And because I don't think it makes sense to vote on > whether we agree with legal advice. Hm, yes, those are both really good points. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
