Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository
Walter Landry <[email protected]>
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Francesco Poli <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:16:28 +0200 Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > On 11424 March 1977, Francesco Poli wrote: > > > > > Important disclaimers: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP. > > > > Those are *totally* and absolutely unimportant and a waste to write. > > Could people please stop always writing them, its fairly clear by itself > > that debian-legal does NOT do any lawyers work (and whatever else people > > put into that crap). Its also absolutely unimportant if someone is a DD > > or not, it doesnt matter at all, as people are writing their own opinion > > about $stuff on the list, not that of Debian. > > I *used* to think that those disclaimers are implicit in most cases. > > But then, I was harshly accused of not making it clear enough that > I am neither a lawyer, nor a Debian developer, that I'm not providing > legal advice, and that I don't speak on behalf of the Debian Project. > Other people were similarly attacked for the same reason. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/10/msg00133.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/06/msg00014.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/06/msg00038.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/06/msg00092.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/06/msg00106.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/06/msg00222.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/06/msg00278.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/07/msg00062.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/07/msg00215.html Note that all of these complaints were made by the same person: Anthony Towns. Since Anthony used to hold a number of positions of authority in Debian, including ftpmaster and DPL, I think that Francesco's response was not irrational. Since a current ftpmaster has explicitly said that these notices are no longer necessary, Francesco can probably relent. Personally, I received similar criticisms, but I never added disclaimers. I just thought Anthony was being a jerk. Cheers, Walter Landry [email protected]