[META] a plea

[Sacha Labourey]

On 09/11/2007 01:12 PM, David Woolley wrote:
> Gwyn Murray wrote:
>>
>> For on-law topics aimed at a legal audience, please check out the 
>> open-bar website and discuss-general list.   www.open-bar.org
>
> The off topic threads aren't about general law, they are about whether 
> or not it is legally possible to create open source licences that 
> achieve the objectives of people using them.  They are intimately 
> related to the viability of most, if not, all licence proposals.
>
> They belong on a software licensing list, not a general law list.
>
For what it's worth, I agree with this. These are recurring topics. If 
the "good answer" to these questions (re-licensing, copyright, etc.) is 
obvious to the OSI, I think the OSI should formally take a stance on 
those and post that official stance somewhere on the OSI web site. Then, 
license-discuss could really be used to discuss new licenses BASED on 
these premises. Then, it would be OK to ban any discussion related to 
these premises from license-discuss (you could open another ML for that).

However, simply dismissing these topics or calling people "trolls" 
because they keep raising them is not fine IMO: if you don't take an 
official stance don't be surprised if people keep "sharing their view".

Cheers,


                Sacha