[csw-maintainers] [POLICY] Policy-team, policy docs, licenses

[Sebastian Kayser]

* Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote:
> 2011/2/9 Maciej Blizi??ski <maciej at opencsw.org>:
> > 2011/2/9 Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com>:
> >>
> >> Most of our policies are already written up. You make it sound like we
> >> are facing a choice of either writing hundreds of pages ourselves, or
> >> copying wholesale from debian.
> >> This is a false choice. Most of the policies we need, we already have
> >> written up.
> >
> > Please point me at our abstract and copyright notice.
> >
> 
> I did say "most", not "all".
> 
> But since you bring those things up:
> Do we really *need* a copyright notice? Why? Are we deathly afraid
> someone is going to "steal" our policies, and.... what, exactly?

Is there any harm in having a license? No. So please focus on the
relevant parts.

> I'm also not sure what is the huge need for "an abstract". or even if
> there is, why this is so difficult to do ourselves quickly and easily.
> Going by
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
> their "abstract" consists of two lines, which basically say, "This is
> the policy manual. Stuff in debian, needs to follow debian policy.".

If you guys start to discuss whether the _abstract_ (i.e. not even
actual policies) needs to be 2 or 5 lines long I feel that the policy
team isn't off to a good start.

Sebastian