a plea

[Chris DiBona]

It's funny that those who most want to regulate the list seem to be
happy to rant about the list being too ranty...

Just saying.

Chris

On 9/10/07, Michael Poole <mdpoole at troilus.org> wrote:
> Brian Behlendorf writes:
>
> > Count me in with Luis's lot, concerned that the sheer volume of
> > messages on this list threatens to prevent the involvement of more
> > than a small group.  Therefore, I plea that we discontinue the
> > conversations about tort law, the mechanics or ethics of sublicensing,
> > or other fairly off-topic conversations.
>
> Topic drift is inevitable in this kind of analysis.  Tort law, the
> mechanics of sublicensing, and other topics come up precisely because
> someone thinks they are relevant to whether a license meets the OSD.
> The discussion most often continues because there is a disagreement
> about the implications.  One cannot entirely sever that from the
> question of whether the license should be certified.
>
> At a certain point, the discussion stops being relevant, but that is
> an argument that should be made on a case-by-case basis.  It should
> not be made by a general dictum about what is acceptably on topic.
>
> Michael Poole
>


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