Volunteer brickbat thrower needed in London (Tuesday 24th 6pm) (original) (raw)

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Quoting http://ossg.bcs.org/2007/07/24/:

The Open Source Specialist Group (OSSG) will be holding an interactive event on Tuesday 24th July 2007 over a proposal to create a British Computer Society (BCS) Open Source Licence.

Obviously this is a very bad idea. To make the point against stupid licence proliferation it would be good to make an example of whatever bunch of idiots proposed it.

I think the best response would be to have someone attend the meeting and read out statements in opposition from Debian, the FSF, and OSI. (An SPI resolution would take too long but we could get a statement from the SPI board chair perhaps.)

A Debian Developer would be a natural choice and would have good standing to informally expand (on their on behalf) on such statements. Would anyone like to volunteer ? Please email me at the address above. When we have a volunteer I'll contact the FSF and OSI (I've already BCC'd leader@ on this mail).

Thanks, Ian.

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