On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 09:59:50AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote: > > [...] but when either group purports to be stating official > > Debian policy, or starts attacking the people who do make such policy, > > that becomes actively harmful to the purpose of this list and the goals > > of the project. > But, despite writing that lists can't be assigned blame, here we go again! > The *group* attacks the policy-makers, does it? I'm sorry, it would have been more correct to have written "members of either group purport to be stating official Debian policy, or start attacking the people who do make such policy, and treating their membership in the group as sufficient qualification to be issuing authoritative statements on behalf of the project, it becomes actively harmful to the purposes of this list and the goals of the project." > I think the Anthony Towns DPLship was not a fun time for those trying > to fix legal bugs and it should have been ended sooner. I think MJ Ray's contributions to -legal and SPI actively discourage other people from contributing, and that effect is probably more harmful to the goals of the project than his contributions are beneficial. Gosh, what fun it is to trade pointless insults on a mailing list. > The most > significant progress seemed to be the delegation of trademark and > copyright instruction to Branden Robinson (which I linked in the summary), > but then those things seemed to return to DPL control again somehow. Unfortunately Branden didn't do anything following the initial draft of the wiki page, so I continued the work from there, as is recorded in the video of the lca miniconf and mails to the -project list. This was, of course, more than you ever did to help define a trademark policy, which consisted of complaining that nobody was doing anything, then not providing any support when anyone was doing anything. Cheers, aj
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