Question about "The Open Source Freedom Project"

[Charlie Kravetz]

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On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:44:08 +0100
Claudio Moretti <flyingstar16 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> yesterday I found a Launchpad email in my inbox informing me that I was
> "added to osfs"; it was an email notifying me that a Launchpad user,
> ~reuben03[1], had added my user to his group, "The Open Source Freedom
> Society"[2].
> I decided to email you because I found out that a lot of users of this
> group are members of this BugSquad, while the group owner isn't; the page
> [3] this group refers to is not an Ubuntu official page, or an FSF one, but
> only a blog on Wordpress.
> I wanted to ask if there is anything Ubuntu-related in it (other from the
> obvious free software reference) and if it is "legal" to add users to
> groups like that.
> It seemed to me only a [poor] attempt to create a userbase for someone's
> group.
> I took a screenshot[4] of the actual page, just in case.
> Can anyone give it a look and tell me if it is something that should be
> reported as a misuse or if it is something normal and/or expected?
> 
> Thanks,
> Claudio
> 
> [1] https://launchpad.net/~reuben03
> [2] https://launchpad.net/~osfs
> [3] http://theopensourcefreedomsociety.wordpress.com/
> [4] http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/8236/osfs.png

I emailed the team leader and requested he never add my name to any
team without first asking me if I wish to join. I have also removed
myself from his team. I believe that I am capable of adding my name to
the teams of my choice. 

This appears to me to be a way to be able to blatantly use launchpad to
build his blog team, and state "I have X number of members joined from
Ubuntu", which might be used to gain advertising or other such things.


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Charlie Kravetz 
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