On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 02:18:00AM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 07:27:51AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'll further note that someone not familiar with the debian-legal lists > > relationship to the Debian project, and encountering legally void, > > factually incorrect, and grossly inflammetory comments such as those > > authored, repeatedly, by Glenn Maynard, particularly if already > > disinclined to grant benefit of the doubt to the Debian Project and its > > parterns as a result of being tortiously wronged due to copyright > > violations, might be very much inclined to take a number of actions. > > Posts such as those of Maynards aren't merely ignorant, but put the > > Project and its partners at increased legal risk. > If discussing the manners in which a license violation can be properly > resolved is to be deemed "putting the Project at increased legal risk", > then I suppose the list should be dissolved. > I do find these personal, repeated attacks to be highly inflammatory > (and so trollishly so that I don't feel responding to them individually > to be necessary). If you're incapable of discussing a subject civilly > and respectfully, then I'm not interested in discussing it with you at > all. > > To reiterate: Debian developers not taking their obligations to > > copyright and license compliance most seriously are putting a large > > number of people at very serious, costly risk. > Debian and d-legal take license compliance very seriously, and nothing > I've said suggests otherwise. If you believe otherwise, you're badly > confused. > Like many participants on this list, I'm also not a DD, and have never > represented myself to be one. > In any event, you've shown yourself to be incapable of polite discussion, > having started out rudely demanding and quickly working your way to flaming, > despite the fact that everyone else involved has been civil and patient. > I'm going to expend my patience on someone else. Bye. Is getting the last word on a public mailing list regarding an issue that has already been amicably resolved by the parties involved an element of civil and polite discussion? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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