Bug#238245: Proposed plan (and license) for the webpage relicensing

2006-04-22 Thread Don Armstrong
To further underline what I have been saying, I object to any of my (currently embarrassingly minor) contributions to the Debian web page to be licensed under the terms of the proposed "Debian Free Documentation License" or any other license which has been specially drafted for the Debian web page

Bug#238245: Proposed plan (and license) for the webpage relicensing

2006-04-22 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 04:47:53PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña: > > > Copyright 1997-2006 Software in the Public Interest, Inc. All rights > > reserved. > > Is this correct? Have all contributors assigned copyright to SPI? Contributor assignment and the lice

Bug#238245: Proposed plan (and license) for the webpage relicensing

2006-04-22 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 06:40:11AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > The only change I made to it was substituting "FreeBSD Documentation > > Project" for "Debian Project". > > You've sent two totally different licenses to the list so far; I was > refering specifically to the license which was attac

Bug#238245: Proposed plan (and license) for the webpage relicensing

2006-04-22 Thread Florian Weimer
* Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña: > Copyright 1997-2006 Software in the Public Interest, Inc. All rights reserved. Is this correct? Have all contributors assigned copyright to SPI? >2. Redistributions in compiled form (transformed to other DTDs, converted >to HTML, PDF, PostScript, RTF

Bug#238245: Proposed plan (and license) for the webpage relicensing

2006-04-22 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:48:09PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Should we decide to change the license, we should either use the MIT > > license if we don't want it to be copyleft, or the GPL if we do. A > > custom license is not somet

Bug#238245: Proposed plan (and license) for the webpage relicensing

2006-04-21 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:48:09PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > Should we decide to change the license, we should either use the MIT > license if we don't want it to be copyleft, or the GPL if we do. A > custom license is not something that we want to write, and especially > not without serious th

Bug#238245: Proposed plan (and license) for the webpage relicensing

2006-04-21 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 01:22:53AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:48:09PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Should we decide to change the license, we should either use the MIT > > license if we don't want it to be copyleft, or the GPL if we do. A > > custom

Bug#238245: Proposed plan (and license) for the webpage relicensing

2006-04-21 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:56:30 -0600 Bdale Garbee wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 15:48 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > Should we decide to change the license, we should either use the MIT > > license if we don't want it to be copyleft, or the GPL if we do. A > > custom license is not something th

Bug#238245: Proposed plan (and license) for the webpage relicensing

2006-04-21 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 15:48 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > Should we decide to change the license, we should either use the MIT > license if we don't want it to be copyleft, or the GPL if we do. A > custom license is not something that we want to write, and especially > not without serious thought

Bug#238245: Proposed plan (and license) for the webpage relicensing

2006-04-21 Thread MJ Ray
Javier =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fern=E1ndez-Sanguino_Pe=F1a?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > a) a proper license should be decided for the website. > >I suggest using a BSD-style license. The attached license is such a >license. I suggest using a BSD-style licence as default, but the attached one is not one

Bug#238245: Proposed plan (and license) for the webpage relicensing

2006-04-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > In summary: The web pages license content should be changed from the > OPL (non DFSG-free) to some other license (DFSG-free). As it is, the > current content is not GPL compatible (so it cannot be reused, for > example, in documentation p

Bug#238245: Proposed plan (and license) for the webpage relicensing

2006-04-20 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 01:37:43 +0200 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:56:57AM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > > > > > >I suggest using a BSD-style license. The attached license is > > >such a license. It is based on the FreeBSD documentation > > >licens

Bug#238245: Proposed plan (and license) for the webpage relicensing

2006-04-19 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:56:57AM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > > > >I suggest using a BSD-style license. The attached license is such a > >license. It is based on the FreeBSD documentation license [3] and > >explicitely mentions translations. In our case (the website) the > >'

Bug#238245: Proposed plan (and license) for the webpage relicensing

2006-04-19 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 01:03:19AM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > I agree that the GNU GPL v2 would be a perfectly reasonable choice for > the Debian website. > Several other GPLv2-compatible licenses are good choices too, however. I'd rather use a simpler license for text content it is more under

Bug#238245: Proposed plan (and license) for the webpage relicensing

2006-04-19 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:09:15 -0500 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On 19 Apr 2006, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña uttered the following: [...] > > > > a) a proper license should be decided for the website. > > > > I suggest using a BSD-style license. The attached license is such a > > license. It is bas

Bug#238245: Proposed plan (and license) for the webpage relicensing

2006-04-19 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:12:16 +0200 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I was reviewing the status of #238245 ("Debian web site is licensed > under the OPL which is not considered DFSG-free") and see that there > have been no actions since October last year and no discussio

Bug#238245: Proposed plan (and license) for the webpage relicensing

2006-04-19 Thread Jutta Wrage
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 19.04.2006 um 13:12 schrieb Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña: e) from here on access to the CVS of the website should be given after clearly stating (and getting and agreement) that any and all contributions to the CVS, unless specified ot

Bug#238245: Proposed plan (and license) for the webpage relicensing

2006-04-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 19 Apr 2006, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña uttered the following: > In summary: The web pages license content should be changed from the > OPL (non DFSG-free) to some other license (DFSG-free). As it is, the > current content is not GPL compatible (so it cannot be reused, for > example, in doc

Bug#238245: Proposed plan (and license) for the webpage relicensing

2006-04-19 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
Hi everyone, I was reviewing the status of #238245 ("Debian web site is licensed under the OPL which is not considered DFSG-free") and see that there have been no actions since October last year and no discussion at debian-www. In summary: The web pages license content should be changed from th