On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 11:47:03AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > I am becoming increasingly concerned at the unilateral method in which > you and/or the archive maintainers have taken this decision. > > The ability to enter into a legal contract to indemnify a third party > should be, and arguably IS, reserved solely for the SPI Board of > Directors. If SPI wish to withdraw from their relationship with Debian, then that's entirely possible to arrange. I don't think it's at all proper that you try to obtain veto power of Debian's activities as conducted by the duly authorised members of that organisation. > SPI projects shouldn't be taking advice from Sun's attorneys. Debian's relationship with SPI is as a helpful legal entity that allows us to act in ways we would not be able to do so without it, not as Debian's governing body. > And I know you would like me to just go away and shut up about this, but > this project is too important, and this action has too many unknowns at > this stage, to just put blind faith in Sun's lawyers doing the right > thing by Debian. That would be a fair comment if it was actually what had happened. It's not. Cheers, aj
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