Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshep...@gmail.com> writes: > Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <did...@raboud.com> wrote:
>> For a simple reason, the DMUP [0]; which every user of Debian resources >> must follow. It says (in its introduction, point 1). >> * "Don't use Debian Facilities for private financial gain" > I'm sure this is just a guideline of course, else the following should > be adhered to: > "Don't mention a book you've just written if that piece of writing > will show up on Debian Planet, even if the book is about Debian." Indeed, and therefore there's already been a lot of discussion on this thread about how the boundary is fuzzy, we don't want to be too literal about it, some amount of incidental use is fine, and so forth. But because the boundary is fuzzy, that means we sometimes have to have these conversations, and it means that the topic is legitimate. I probably come to this from a slightly different perspective than some of the people here since I work for a non-profit educational institution, which has similar requirements around use of university facilities for personal gain for tax reasons. If someone at Stanford used Stanford computing facilities directly for personal financial gain, Stanford could get into serious trouble with the US government because it's a violation of our tax-free non-profit status. As you would expect, just like with the Debian systems, the boundary is fuzzy and complicated, and there's a lot of things that fall into a grey area (note, for example, that both Yahoo and Google started as student projects and originally ran on Stanford's network, but notice also that we kicked both of them off our network onto their own bandwidth long before they became companies). The university, like most places with this issue, has guidelines that allow for "incidental use," where "incidental" is left open to a common-sense interpretation. But there's still a real rule there, and the university occasionally has to enforce it. I personally felt quite uncomfortable with hosting my web site, which as previously mentioned has some affiliate links to an on-line bookstore, on the Stanford network even though it was on my personal hardware, and felt much more comfortable about that once I moved my personal web site to my own VMs hosted elsewhere. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87hbfnn58b....@windlord.stanford.edu