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Re: Legal budget and Director-and-officer insurance related to packages with "adult" themes



Andrew,

I worked on the patent and copyright issues because Debian and indeed all of Free Software would be up the river if people did not work on it. I have arranged more than $120K of grants to work on this since leaving HP.

That is not the case for packages with questionable images and dialogue. I'm not volunteering, and neither are the people who gave me money. You or Manoj or other people who care about the issue should take a turn. And Debian should fund the necessary legal research into the problem until such a date as you can find donors.

I hope you're not advocating that continue to remain ignorant about the implications of the issue. That could be suicide for the project.

   Thanks

   Bruce

Andrew Suffield wrote:

You go off and do that then, and leave the rest of us out of it like
you did with the much more serious issue of copyright and patent
laws. You evidently managed it once without any money (since we
haven't got any), so clearly you can do it again.

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