Re: Review of personal information sources in Debian

2012-08-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Enrico, I needed to escape the problem that UDD has sometimes several different spellings for the name of the very same person. I hacked around a bit and finally settled with http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=teammetrics/teammetrics.git;a=blob;f=maintain_names_prefered.py;hb=HEAD It is

Feedback on your Whois system proposal - Was: Re: Review of personal information sources in Debian

2012-08-14 Thread Olivier Berger
Hi. Martín Ferrari writes: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Enrico Zini wrote: >> I've recently done a review of personal information sources in Debian, >> which I'd like to share here both because I don't think this has been >> done before, and to check if I missed anything. > > Coincidental

Re: Review of personal information sources in Debian

2012-08-14 Thread Olivier Berger
Enrico Zini writes: > Hello, > > I've recently done a review of personal information sources in Debian, > which I'd like to share here both because I don't think this has been > done before, and to check if I missed anything. > SNIP > > > Did I miss anything in this review? Is everything repres

Re: trademark policy draft

2012-08-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 03:30:16PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Down to the specificities of Debian procedures, I consider my duty > > to take care of Debian assets, including trademarks. I would not > > take the responsibility of acting in a way that --- according to our > > legal advisors ---

Re: trademark policy draft

2012-08-14 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, August 14, 2012 16:51, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I agree with this. In dealing with lawyers on behalf of Debian, I've > quickly learned that there are almost never "100% safe" or "100% risky" > positions. It is *always* a cost/benefit/risk analysis. You ask the > experts to evaluate the r

Re: trademark policy draft

2012-08-14 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > The benefit is that we have a legal tool against someone doing something > nasty with our name. Which is nice to have, but doesn't come for free. > It's hard to quantify as well: the benefit is for a future situation of > which we do not kn

Re: trademark policy draft

2012-08-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Michael Gilbert writes ("Re: trademark policy draft"): > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > The benefit is that we have a legal tool against someone doing something > > nasty with our name. Which is nice to have, but doesn't come for free. > > It's hard to quantify as well

Re: Feedback on your Whois system proposal - Was: Re: Review of personal information sources in Debian

2012-08-14 Thread Martín Ferrari
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Olivier Berger wrote: > Do you have any preferred means to receive some feedback on your > proposal (I can't seem to find some comments on your blog post) ? Sorry, I've never had the patience or motivation to enable them :) Email to this very thread seems like a g