Re: Proposed vote on issue of the day: trademarks and free software
MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> writes:
> Most individual members of the Debian project cannot join the FSF. The
> FSF offers a fundraising campaign called "associate membership" but that
> is not joining in anything similar to the debian project. (I think a
> few DDs are full members of FSF, but it's not generally true.)
>
> So, no alternative organisations have been named. The Debian project is
> one of very few groups where ordinary free software developers can issue
> (draft and decide) such a statement about what's affected their project
> and users.
>
> Hope that explains,
Thank you, yes, it does. It's not to me a persuasive argument for Debian
being the body to issue such statements, but I understand much better now
why you would prefer Debian over, say, the FSF, and indeed I don't have a
good counter-argument. I appreciate the explanation.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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