UDRP Legitimate interests: EU whistleblower directive, workplace health & safety concerns
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock.
There is an effort underway to censor this web site and discredit those who created it by using the WIPO UDRP.
The accusation of bad faith from the trademark holder is a huge insult. I'd rather be accused of whistleblowing than be wrongly accused of bad faith.
Then again, how can any of us be accused of whistleblowing when the Debian Social Contract says We won't hide problems?
In 2019, the European Union adopted the Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2019 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law .
The Debian Social Contract includes the clause:
3. We will not hide problems
This clause appears completely compatible with the EU Whisteblowing Directive. In fact, this clause appears to encourage and authorize whistleblowing.
The fact that a Debian Developer wrote a combined resignation/suicide note on the night before Debian Day makes it hard to ignore the possibility that his death is related to something in the Debian environment.
Public Health England quantifies three suicides in a community as the minimum threshold to declare a suicide cluster. █