Re: "Waqf" General Public License in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 12164 March 1977, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > I really wonder how this (#579796), especially with such a license can > even be considered for going into Debian (especially seeing it in the > NEW queue yes I know, that this doesn't mean it has already been > acceptet). Check again, this i

Bug#587854: ITP: getdp-sparskit -- general environment for the treatment of discrete problems

2010-07-02 Thread trophime
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: trophime * Package name: getdp-sparskit Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Christophe Geuzaine * URL : http://www.geuz.org/getdp * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C++ Description : general environment for the t

Re: "Waqf" General Public License in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Am 02.07.2010 08:57, schrieb Joerg Jaspert: >>> The above URL has the license. I think that the concepts in the preamble >>> are >>> interesting, offering software to please Allah and denying the concept of >>> "ownership" of Intellectual Property. >> Which is not only non-free in Debian, we ca

Bug#587856: ITP: debian-gis -- Set of Blends metapackages for Debian GIS

2010-07-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: debian-gis Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Petter Reinholdtsen , Andreas Tille * URL : native package * License : GPL Description : Set of Blends metapackages for Debian GIS The s

Re: "Waqf" General Public License in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 07/02/2010 12:53 AM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 00:39 +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: >> The software is meant for non-free. Why it should be rejected? >> Even non-free stuff has to pass NEW for the first upload… > See points (1-4) from my original post, which are not cha

Bug#587893: ITP: tdbc -- Tcl Database Connectivity (TDBC)

2010-07-02 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Konstantin Khomoutov * Package name: tdbc Version : 1.0b14 Upstream Author : Kevin B. Kenny The Tcl Core Team * URL : http://tdbc.tcl.tk/ * License : (custom, BSD-like) Programming Lang: (C, Tcl)

Re: Advanced Startup/Shutdown with Multilayered Block Devices and Related Issues

2010-07-02 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 01:24 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > You're looking for tmpfs and pivot_root. The latter is a hack that's needed > only because of kernel threads, if you're the only process chroot() and > chdir() should be enough. Of course,.. I rather meant,.. whether there are chances that

Re: "Waqf" General Public License in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 09:48 +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > You seem to have missed some funny licenses already used in the non-free > area. > As an example, did you read > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2010/03/msg00064.html ? It's funny... yes... but there is no discriminatory or similar cont

Re: "Waqf" General Public License in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 09:05 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Check again, this is meant for non-free, not main. Still do not see how this would change anything... well of course rules may say that we may put anything into non-free if it's distributable,... but then we need some better rules. > Oh su

Re: "Waqf" General Public License in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread Holger Levsen
On Freitag, 2. Juli 2010, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2010/03/msg00064.html ? > It's funny... yes... but there is no discriminatory or similar content > in it. Huh? It clearly discriminates evil-doers! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally si

Re: "Waqf" General Public License in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi Panah
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: >> Oh suure. "We are all about freedom, but please no religional >> stuff. Oh, and while we are at, get away with porn. And alcohol is bad >> too, anything that can help people there, get away." >> Thats not how it works, we c

Re: "Waqf" General Public License in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 16:12 +0430, Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi Panah wrote: > > I guess it's quite easy for to judge things like this using common > > sense... > I don't think my common sense is anything near yours. Isn't Debian > supposed to be for all of us? Well... then apparently at least not fo

Re: "Waqf" General Public License in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread Matthias Klumpp
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 16:12:55 +0430, Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi Panah wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer > wrote: >>> Oh suure. "We are all about freedom, but please no religional >>> stuff. Oh, and while we are at, get away with porn. And alcohol is bad >>> too,

Re: "Waqf" General Public License in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 02 juillet 2010 à 13:25 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer a écrit : > > > 4) The license is extremely anti-American, and I guess also > > > anti-European/anti-Western. > > Doesnt matter. > Although you may be right from the what allows non-free point of view,.. > but in all doing respect,

Re: Razer Mice

2010-07-02 Thread Kai Wasserbäch
Dear reporter, initrd@comcast.net schrieb am 02.07.2010 08:35: > After digging for support for Razer Gaming Mice for the past year, I came > across a project that supports a number of Razer mice and and uses pyqt4 for > the interface. This is a great tool and as I have noticed not just the numb

Re: "Waqf" General Public License in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi Panah
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 16:12:55 +0430, Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi Panah > wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer >> wrote: Oh suure. "We are all about freedom, but please no religional stuff. Oh, and w

Removal of not+kfreebsd and linux-gnu dependency, bugs already filled

2010-07-02 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Hi, first of all, I'm really sorry for filling 23 bugs without discussing this here. This started as Kyle (Cc) filled #585767 because some packages failed to build on powerpcspe (not official, in debian-ports atm). The gnu triplet there is powerpc-linux-gnuspe so type-handling provides not+linux-g

Re: "Waqf" General Public License in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/02/2010 06:33 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: On Freitag, 2. Juli 2010, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2010/03/msg00064.html ? It's funny... yes... but there is no discriminatory or similar content in it. Huh? It clearly discriminates evil-doers! I *thin

Re: Removal of not+kfreebsd and linux-gnu dependency, bugs already filled

2010-07-02 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 16:01:01 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > This started as Kyle (Cc) filled #585767 because some packages failed to > build on powerpcspe (not official, in debian-ports atm). The gnu > triplet there is powerpc-linux-gnuspe so type-handling provides > not+linux-gnu.

Re: "Waqf" General Public License in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> Check again, this is meant for non-free, not main. > Still do not see how this would change anything... well of course rules > may say that we may put anything into non-free if it's distributable,... > but then we need some better rules. Every DD can start a GR to change the rules. To drop non

Re: Bug#587877: Removal of not+kfreebsd and linux-gnu dependency, bugs already filled

2010-07-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 02 juillet 2010 à 10:48 -0500, Peter Samuelson a écrit : > Policy only allows these wildcards for the build-time fields. In > libgnomevfs2-dev (subject of bug 587877), it is a regular Depends:, and > your wildcard solution will not work. > > Unless, that is, dpkg-gencontrol expands th

Re: Removal of not+kfreebsd and linux-gnu dependency, bugs already filled

2010-07-02 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior] > Since Debian-Policy 3.9.0 architecture wild cards are allowed so this > dependency would become > libudev-dev (>= 0.139) [linux-any] > and the type-handling aliases (which are hack according to #585767) > could go. Based on this and the fact that some packages are al

Re: "Waqf" General Public License in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread Holger Levsen
On Freitag, 2. Juli 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Huh? It clearly discriminates evil-doers! > I *think* that's sarcasm, but not sure... No. Why? What $you think is evil $I might think is not. So if $you discriminate evil-doing, you discriminate $me. I dont get why one discrimination of use cases

Re: "Waqf" General Public License in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 02 juillet 2010 à 19:42 +0200, Holger Levsen a écrit : > On Freitag, 2. Juli 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Huh? It clearly discriminates evil-doers! > > I *think* that's sarcasm, but not sure... > > No. Why? > > What $you think is evil $I might think is not. So if $you discriminate

Re: Removal of not+kfreebsd and linux-gnu dependency, bugs already filled

2010-07-02 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
* Julien Cristau | 2010-07-02 16:20:24 [+0100]: >> This started as Kyle (Cc) filled #585767 because some packages failed to >> build on powerpcspe (not official, in debian-ports atm). The gnu >> triplet there is powerpc-linux-gnuspe so type-handling provides >> not+linux-gnu. This is also the case

Bug#587929: ITP: bombardier-core-1.00 -- Open Source Configuration management and package delivery (shared components)

2010-07-02 Thread Peter Banka
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Banka * Package name: bombardier-core-1.00 Version : 1.0.762 Upstream Author : Peter Banka * URL : http://www.bombardierinstaller.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : Open Source Con

Re: "Waqf" General Public License in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 09:05:52AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Oh suure. "We are all about freedom, but please no religional > stuff. Oh, and while we are at, get away with porn. And alcohol is bad > too, anything that can help people there, get away." > Thats not how it works, we cant as

Re: "Waqf" General Public License in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey Well I guess that it's much easier to judge what's evil and what's not. Typically all peoples that took part in the Enlightenment a scientific development came to similar rules, which you can find things like: - Universal Declaration of Human Rights - European Convention on Human Rights -

Bug#587947: ITP: jme -- high performance scenegraph based graphics java API

2010-07-02 Thread Gabriele Giacone
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gabriele Giacone <1o5g4...@gmail.com> * Package name: jme Version : 2.0.1 Upstream Author : jME Team * URL : http://www.jmonkeyengine.com * License : BSD Programming Lang: Java Description : high performance scene

Re: "Waqf" General Public License in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread Scott Kitterman
"Christoph Anton Mitterer" wrote: >Hey > >Well I guess that it's much easier to judge what's evil and what's not. > >Typically all peoples that took part in the Enlightenment a scientific >development came to similar rules, which you can find things like: >- Universal Declaration of Human R