FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community

[Aryeh M. Friedman]

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Chuck Robey wrote:
> redirected to -chat
>
> Astrodog wrote:
>> I'd like to propose the creation of a freebsd-legal mailing list.
>>
>
>> Beyond moving threads like this one off of -current, I believe it
>>  would provide a valuable place to discuss things like DTrace
>> licensing, the use of GPL'd code in base, Java packages, etc.
>
> I don't think it's really needed.  What's needed (and I fully
> understand why folks have been slow to invoke it) is, for a short
> while, to require folks to follow the mailing list rules a bit more
> closely, and applying certain sanctions should they violate them.
> Folks have been flagrantly breaking the rules, and justifying it by
> saying "no one reads it then!", and if this isn't stopped, the list
> suffers.
>
> Maybe, at the start, just some sterner warnings might possily serve
> the purpose?  But folks need to know that the list monitor is at
> least awake.
>
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As I said in the opening messages of the thread I would gladelly use
such a list if one existed (which it doesn't now so we have the
current situtation)

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Aryeh M. Friedman
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