a plea

Tue Sep 11 04:30:06 UTC 2007

I've added this item to agenda for the Board's next meeting, which 
happens to be this coming Friday.
Danese
On Sep 10, 2007, at 9:18 PM, Radcliffe, Mark wrote:
>> Having just read about 200 posts at one time, I strongly agree with
> Brian. Many of these posts are marginally relevant to the approval
> process. I strongly recommend that we discuss the adoption of a 
> separate
> License Approval List which would require that the posts relate to
> License Approval and keep License Discuss for discussion of open 
> source
> licenses not relating to approval of new licenses or deleting existing
> licenses
>> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Behlendorf [mailto:brian at hyperreal.org]
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 1:02 PM
> To: license-discuss at opensource.org
> Subject: a plea
>>> 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. It's especially annoying when those continue to happen
> under an old no-longer-relevant subject line, and especially
> disappointing
> when that is done by people who should know better. I think these
> topics
> do deserve a place to be discussed, but that ain't license-discuss.
>> 	Brian
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