BOINC: lib/cal.h license issue agree with the DFSG?

[Francesco Poli]

On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 17:11:09 -0800 Steve Langasek wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 03:13:58PM -0800, Sean Kellogg wrote:
> > On Friday 01 January 2010 2:57:18 pm Francesco Poli wrote:
[...]
> > > This is a choice of venue clause.
> > > Choice of venue clauses are controversial and have been discussed to
> > > death in the past on debian-legal: my personal opinion is that they
> > > fail to meet the DFSG.
> 
> > A fight that has been lost many times... choice of venue is fine.
> 
> Yes.  I don't like choice of venue clauses, but the project has decided they
> are acceptable,

I don't remember seeing such a decision.
Where was it taken?
By whom?

Could you please cite some URL?

> and it's not appropriate to inject one's personal dissenting
> opinions into a license analysis on this list.

This continues to come up from you, again and again.

See for example the following sub-thread:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2009/05/msg00042.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2009/05/msg00047.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2009/05/msg00077.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2009/06/msg00003.html

I re-iterate: how can policy or practice be refined or discussed, if
*any* disagreement is banned from Debian mailing lists?

Moreover, in the present case, I think that I honestly stated that the
DFSG-freeness of choice of venue clauses is controversial and then I
provided my own personal opinion, *explicitly* labeling it as such.
I don't remember any clear decision by the Debian Project on this
matter, otherwise I would have cited it (as I often do with the GR on
the GFDL, for instance).


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