Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-12 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On 6/7/06, Jon Kåre Hellan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Second question: Has a binding legal agreement been made? Indeed it has. Ftp-masters are empowered by Debian to include packages in the archive. They are without question agents of Debian. Debian must accept the legal consequences of their age

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-09 Thread Ian Jackson
John Goerzen writes ("Re: Who can make binding legal agreements"): > The other plausible interpretation is that SPI *is* on the hook, as the > legal entity that owns servers that are distributing software. If you use your shell account at your ISP to distribute software, and the I

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-09 Thread Ian Jackson
John Goerzen writes ("Re: Who can make binding legal agreements"): > * If a member project engages in activities that would jeopardize >SPI's classification as a non-profit entity Things of that kind would be using SPI property or funds for unsuitable activities. Note

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-08 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 02:47:24PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:07:07AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > So what am I trying to do? > > Most importantly, make sure that SPI and Debian aren't exposed to > > serious legal risks. > Then why don't you contact Greg and the SPI

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-07 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:07:07AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > So what am I trying to do? > Most importantly, make sure that SPI and Debian aren't exposed to > serious legal risks. Then why don't you contact Greg and the SPI board yourself? > As I've said already, I don't want SPI to be involved

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-07 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:15:12PM -0500, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:46:57PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > And hi to everyone from /.! > > http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/06/07/047204.shtml for those playing > > along > > at home. > If you wanted to avoid publicity, no

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Given the above link point to your post, you can only blame yourself for > its content. It's not strictly necessary to bitch about Anthony's actions at every opportunity. If you disagree with his course of actions, perhaps dropping him a private mail

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-07 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:46:57PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > And hi to everyone from /.! > > http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/06/07/047204.shtml for those playing along > at home. If you wanted to avoid publicity, not announcing the inclusion of 'Sun Java' on debian-devel-announce would hav

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-07 Thread Joe Smith
"Martijn van Oosterhout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 6/7/06, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Sure. SPI owns many of the machines that Debian owns. If any o

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-07 Thread Ian Jackson
John Goerzen writes ("Re: Who can make binding legal agreements"): > The first paragraph of the license linked to by the original > announcement: > > SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. ("SUN") IS WILLING TO LICENSE THE JAVA PLATFORM > STANDARD EDITION DEVELOPER KIT ("

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-07 Thread Ian Jackson
John Goerzen writes ("Re: Who can make binding legal agreements"): > First, I don't believe that SPI has ever granted anyone the ability to > enter into legally-binding agreements to indemnify (which means to use > our resources to defend) third parties. I may be mista

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-07 Thread Jon Kåre Hellan
OK, I'll chime in. I just hope I'm not making matters worse. First, obligatory disclaimers: I'm not a lawyer, I'm not a Debian developer, I'm not a new maintainer applicant either. And I'm certainly not going to make demands on anybody. I'm a resident of Norway, so that is the legal system I am

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-07 Thread Christian Perrier
> Well, when the DPL is ignoring the developers' opinions, why would the s/the/some of the/ ? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-07 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 09:05:20PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I think these are all very reasonable statements. Not being an > ftp-master, it's not really my decision to make, but my personal opinion > is that the above is good advice and the closer we can make the > relationship between SPI's l

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-07 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 02:04:18PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 09:35:41PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > Nobody was suggesting that, and I fail to understand why it is in > > anyone's interests for you to ratchet up the heat on this issue > > another notch by making remark

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-07 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 07 juin 2006 à 14:04 +1000, Anthony Towns a écrit : > I don't understand why, as SPI President, you'd bring up concerns > regarding SPI's legal position in the middle of a thread on -devel and > -legal, without having discussed it on spi-board, having consulted SPI's > attorney as to th

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-07 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:02:04PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > John Goerzen writes ("Re: Who can make binding legal agreements"): > > The first paragraph of the license linked to by the original > > announcement: > > > > SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. ("SUN

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-07 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 11:59:02AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > This is definitely wrong. SPI should not be involved in licence > approval. Firstly, because licence approval is often a political > decision for Debian. And secondly because SPI is not the licencee and > it is very important for thi

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-07 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 02:04:18PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 09:35:41PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:02:16PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > > The ability to enter into a legal contract to indemnify a third party > > > > should be, and argu

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On 6/7/06, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Sure. SPI owns many of the machines that Debian owns. If any of these >> machines are being used to distribute this software, as I think is >> likely,

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-06 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 06:45, Russ Allbery wrote: > George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wednesday 07 June 2006 06:11, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> You believe that it's pretty clear that *SPI* is distributing the > >> software? Could you trace your reasoning here? > > > > Nobody said

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Sure. SPI owns many of the machines that Debian owns. If any of these >> machines are being used to distribute this software, as I think is >> likely, then SPI could be liable. > > Oh, very good point. I ha

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 09:35:41PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:02:16PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > The ability to enter into a legal contract to indemnify a third party > > > should be, and arguably IS, reserved solely for the SPI Board of > > > Directors. > > If

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-06 Thread Russ Allbery
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sure. SPI owns many of the machines that Debian owns. If any of these > machines are being used to distribute this software, as I think is > likely, then SPI could be liable. Oh, very good point. I hadn't thought of this. > I can see what you're sayi

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-06 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 08:11:21PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 07:43:10PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. ("SUN") IS WILLING TO LICENSE THE JAVA PLATFORM > > STANDARD EDITION DEVELOPER KIT ("JDK" - THE "S

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-06 Thread Russ Allbery
George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 07 June 2006 06:11, Russ Allbery wrote: >> You believe that it's pretty clear that *SPI* is distributing the >> software? Could you trace your reasoning here? > Nobody said that and you know it. Uh, well, believe it or not, that really d

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-06 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 06:11, Russ Allbery wrote: > John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 07:43:10PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> I think I lost a thread of the argument here. How does the acceptance > >> into non-free of a package by the ftp-masters commit SPI

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-06 Thread Russ Allbery
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 07:43:10PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I think I lost a thread of the argument here. How does the acceptance >> into non-free of a package by the ftp-masters commit SPI to a legally >> binding agreement? > The first paragraph o

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-06 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 07:43:10PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > First, I don't believe that SPI has ever granted anyone the ability to > > enter into legally-binding agreements to indemnify (which means to use > > our resources to defend) third partie

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-06 Thread Russ Allbery
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First, I don't believe that SPI has ever granted anyone the ability to > enter into legally-binding agreements to indemnify (which means to use > our resources to defend) third parties. I may be mistaken, though. > Could you please point out where you be

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-06 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:02:16PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > The ability to enter into a legal contract to indemnify a third party > > should be, and arguably IS, reserved solely for the SPI Board of > > Directors. > > If SPI wish to withdraw from their relationship with Debian, then that'

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 11:47:03AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > I am becoming increasingly concerned at the unilateral method in which > you and/or the archive maintainers have taken this decision. > > The ability to enter into a legal contract to indemnify a third party > should be, and arguably

Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-06 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 09:43:02PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 03:59:03PM +0200, Dalibor Topic wrote: > > Mmm. The impression I got was that people were waiting for the packages > to be removed from Debian and no one was really all that interested in > responses from Sun,