Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Tiago Bortoletto Vaz dijo [Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:56:15PM -0400]: > > > If a Debian contributor > > > was being harassed due to their involvement with the project, what > > > responsibilities do you think the project would have to them? > > > > Did the project provide assistance to you, and do yo

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-18 Thread Molly dB
> My response was directed at the questions Molly had posed, namely > whether (1) contributors should be defended against third-party > copyright claims or (2) whether contributors should be offered > financial assistance when pursuing harassment claims in court. As far as I'm aware, I didn't

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-18 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 05:23:42PM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: > Hi Molly, > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 5:42 AM Molly dB wrote: > > > > If a Debian contributor > > was being harassed due to their involvement with the project, what > > responsibilities do you think the project would have to them? >

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-18 Thread Richard Laager
On 3/18/22 10:23, Felix Lechner wrote: I hope instead to devolve the concentration of power from my office into an open and transparent system of boards and commissions This is a complex topic, but in broad strokes, the concept of having more people involved seems reasonable to me. But I fear th

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-18 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Molly, On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 5:42 AM Molly dB wrote: > > If a Debian contributor > was being harassed due to their involvement with the project, what > responsibilities do you think the project would have to them? Did the project provide assistance to you, and do you worry that the assistan

Re: Question to all candidates: registering Debian as an organization

2022-03-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 05:30:30PM +0100, Christian Kastner wrote: > Jonathan has already addressed this in his platform, acknowledging Brian > Gupta's 2020 campaign focus on this, so this is mostly a question for > Hideki and Felix: > > What is your position on registering Debian as an organizati

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-18 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Steve, On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 11:12 AM Steve McIntyre wrote: > > Which do *you* perceive as proper? > > Come on, please stop evading the question. Thank you for your persistence, but I already answered that question. [1] Kind regards, Felix Lechner [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 11:08:33AM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: >Hi Steve, > >On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:48 AM Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> Which would you be prepared to provide as DPL? > >Whichever the members perceive as proper. Which do *you* perceive as proper? Come on, please stop evading th

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-18 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Steve, On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:48 AM Steve McIntyre wrote: > > Which would you be prepared to provide as DPL? Whichever the members perceive as proper. Kind regards, Felix Lechner

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-18 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Ross, On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:42 AM Ross Vandegrift wrote: > > As DPL, you may confront issues which are not wise to handle > transparently. This could be due to negative social consequnces, legal > advice, etc. You answer makes me concerned that you intend to either: > - refuse to work o

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:43:49AM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: >Hi Steve, > >On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:19 AM Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> Hmmm.. Do you not feel that project should stand with and support >> contributors facing harassment because of their work in Debian? > >Are you asking for empat

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-18 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Steve, On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:19 AM Steve McIntyre wrote: > > Hmmm.. Do you not feel that project should stand with and support > contributors facing harassment because of their work in Debian? Are you asking for empathy or for financial assistance? Kind regards, Felix Lechner

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-18 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 08:23:12AM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 5:42 AM Molly dB wrote: > > > > I'd like to hear about where you draw the line between individual > > issues and community wide issues. To use an example of copyright > > claims: Would it be Debian's responsib

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi Felix, On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 08:23:12AM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: > >The harassment case is easily distinguished in that (1) the victim >seeks to initiate legal action instead of needing help with a defense, >and (2) the project's survival is not at risk—unless the victim sues >Debian as we

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-18 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Molly, On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 5:42 AM Molly dB wrote: > > I'd like to hear about where you draw the line between individual > issues and community wide issues. To use an example of copyright > claims: Would it be Debian's responsibility if someone raised a > copyright claim against an individ

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-18 Thread Molly dB
Hi Felix, I'd like to ask a tangential question. I'd like to hear about where you draw the line between individual issues and community wide issues. To use an example of copyright claims: Would it be Debian's responsibility if someone raised a copyright claim against an individual for their parti

Re: Question to all candidates: Ongoing/future legal projects

2022-03-18 Thread Molly dB
Hi Hideki, I don't think it's exactly a term limit problem. In November, there was an email to debian-private about a small team handling some legal work (also mentioned in Jonathan's email). I want to know about how a new DPL would take over this specific issue and manage future legal issues. Jon