Dear Debian voters, While Debian has stakes in the CRA, and should issue a statement if only to show we exists, I am quite sure that a GR is not necessary for Debian to issue such statement, and I am quite unconvinced the GR process is the best option for the purpose of drafting such statement.
I note that this is not the first law proposal that impact Debian and we never did used the GR process for issuing a position statement. The DPL could delegate to a group of people knowledgeable in EU law to draft a statement that is congruent with the interest of Debian. EU law is significantly different from US law and publishing a statement that either misrepresent the CRA or the current state of EU law is not likely to be taken seriously, so we need some care. We have legitimate reasons to feel concerned by the impact of this law, but all the more reasons to act cautiously. I advocated previously against using the GR process to issues statements related to non-technical issues outside of Debian and I reiterate it here. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
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