Re: GPL and command-line libraries

2004-11-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
escape codes. There's no free way to say "only free-software clients can connect to this telnet daemon". -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Bug#284219: please remove gnu-standards

2004-12-04 Thread Glenn Maynard
quot;; it's "allow non-free documentation in main because we don't have time before Sarge to deal with it all". In no way does it discourage maintainers with the time and inclination to deal with it before Sarge from doing so. (I'd suggest that gnu-standards be moved to non-free, though, not removed.) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-06 Thread Glenn Maynard
eatest disjoint between mail and reply goes to Jonas > Meurer. Other awards for this post include "best hijacking of an unrelated > thread to reignite dead topics", and "The Non-sequitur award for cognative > dissonance". But JACK HOWARTH IS A FUCKING IDIOT ... -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- (abusive?) erotic images in Debian

2004-12-07 Thread Glenn Maynard
ttributions, that was written by Martin Olsson, > not Tollef Fog Heen. I think the only bottom-quoting scheme I've seen which is more annoying than that is bare indentation (which only RMS seems to use) ... -- Glenn Maynard

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
t that this is a result of hardware implementation decisions is irrelevant.) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
g a shared library for an executable, saying "we're not allowed to distribute this; download it from someone else". That's contrib. It's a software dependency, because the blob is software--if it wasn't a software dependency, we wouldn't have anything to disagree about. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
it should go in main". That's bogus; by that logic, everything in contrib would be allowed in main. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
ware when > it's a BLOB. As far as I can tell, you're agreeing with me. :) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
ee software. "contrib" exists for software which is free but fails SC#1, "we will never make the system depend on an item of non-free software". Moving something from contrib to main that does, in fact, depend on such an item is a pretty basic violation of Debian's principles. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-12 Thread Glenn Maynard
hem, as long as the system as a whole continues to work and the packaged data itself is Free; and that contrib has no basis in the SC or DFSG at all? -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Obfuscated source

2004-12-12 Thread Glenn Maynard
_only_ a GPL-term and not part of > the SC. You can keep saying that all you want, but it remains the most commonly used and most functional definition for "source code" available, and I fail to see the motive behind objecting to its use as a metric for determining whether something is source. (For example, it clearly comes to the correct answer above, in the case of machine-obfuscated code.) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-12 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 09:27:05PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 11, Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If the driver has to be able to open the file and read the blob so it > > can send it to the device, there's a clear relationship and depende

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-12 Thread Glenn Maynard
chop out code from programs that makes use of optional non-free libraries, moving just those pieces into contrib; drivers (in the context of a kernel) seem like the same situation. (I don't yet feel too strongly about this parallel, though.) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Obfuscated source

2004-12-12 Thread Glenn Maynard
; any form of support for Nvidia graphics cards. No source is no source; obfuscated code is not source. I hope we can agree that crippling DFSG#2 in order to squeeze non-free nVidia code into main is not a good thing to do. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-13 Thread Glenn Maynard
't start by demanding freedom, saying "if you do this, it'll benefit everyone--trust me!" (This isn't to say that I think non-free firmware belongs in main, of course. It's a difficult issue, and I don't quite know the right answer yet.) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Bug#285518: misdn-utils includes a firmware loader

2004-12-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
urpose. That's an issue of "Depends:", not of the Social Contract's "never make the system depend on an item of non-free software", which I believe is the issue. (My understanding--which may well be wrong, of course--is that the tech-ctte's authority does not extend to the Social Contract or the DFSG.) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-16 Thread Glenn Maynard
e are some corner cases (of what seems to me to be copyright abuse), eg. in the AIM client case, but that's a very different scenario and should be treated independently. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Bug#285518: misdn-utils includes a firmware loader

2004-12-16 Thread Glenn Maynard
all: if the firmware isn't even in non-free, then it's a legal issue and philosophy doesn't enter into it. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Bug#285518: misdn-utils includes a firmware loader

2004-12-16 Thread Glenn Maynard
ain or contrib. The active question, here, is not whether these drivers are Free; we're assuming they're Free, and asking whether they should go in main or contrib due to the firmware being non-free. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-16 Thread Glenn Maynard
shed hardware is a broken device" analogy is bought, the fact remains that many copies of the hardware still do function, having working firmware. The existance of non-working hardware is irrelevant. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Bug#285518: misdn-utils includes a firmware loader

2004-12-16 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 02:37:45AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No, there's a very concrete reason: given an installation of Debian > > main, the driver works. Drivers that require non-free firmware don't >

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-17 Thread Glenn Maynard
ctionary lawyers nitpick "software", the real point is probably long lost, anyway ... :) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-17 Thread Glenn Maynard
d Erik > Naggum, so this should be a walk in the park. So now you're saying that expecting that documentation be Free is "idiocy", and that the majority doesn't actually want it, despite the very clear results of GR 2004-003. Sorry, that's a tired old complaint that's not even worth refuting ... -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Bug#285518: misdn-utils includes a firmware loader

2004-12-17 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 09:39:46AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 02:37:45AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >> Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > No, there

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-17 Thread Glenn Maynard
r. Despite that, the emulator would still go in contrib. (The firmware debate is due, in part, to it not being immediately clear whether a driver requiring firmware to fire up a device counts as "depend[ing] on an item of non-free software", but your emulator example has no such ambiguity.) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-17 Thread Glenn Maynard
ed to be removed, overwritten, or lost; where I'd call a device with a hosed flash "broken". (The former I'd sell on eBay as "drive only, no packaging, drivers or manuals"; the latter I'd expect to see sold "AS-IS, UNTESTED".) However, this is a corner case, and I think the "simpler" cases of simple on-card flash should be dealt with before banging our heads on the corner cases. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-01 Thread Glenn Maynard
ng me to have any non- free dependencies in main that I want? Of course not--and the same thing doesn't work if the secondary CPU is on a sound card's DSP or a SCSI card's processor. The CPU being used isn't an important metric here (even if it's not obvious what the real metric is). -- Glenn Maynard

Re: murphy is listed on spamcop

2005-01-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
oid them and still achieve your > > goals. > > There is no comparison between killing people and bouncing email. Whatever > point you were trying to make is lost. The thread is over. You're the one trying to force that comparison, not TB, so it's apparently your point that's been lost. Nice try, though. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-03 Thread Glenn Maynard
best. > > This could be as simple as mounting a tmpfs on /lib/firmware, and wgetting > I'd say that a local cache is needed, though whether it's used should be up > to the local admin. ... so I don't know why we're talking about implementation details. :) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-03 Thread Glenn Maynard
rk availability removed - RELEVANT CONTEXT] The removed quotes were superfluous to my response, so no, they weren't relevant. Stop yelling. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-04 Thread Glenn Maynard
I think some indication of removal is useful, I mark it with a blank line between quotes, instead of ">"; this is clear enough, since the full text is always available. All text in all messages is relevant to other text; not removing text which is relevant to some other quote would mean never removing anything. (As your complaints about my quoting are both frivilous and in a somewhat demanding tone, I doubt I'll respond to them any further.) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: murphy is listed on spamcop

2005-01-04 Thread Glenn Maynard
ion. As everyone understood his point, it has not been lost--regardless of how many times you assert that is has. [1] "You cannot justify the bad things that happen as a result of your actions by saying that your goals *require* bad things to happen." -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Ignoring the truth or Hiding problems? (was: Are mails sent to xxxx buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?)

2005-01-05 Thread Glenn Maynard
7;t get CCs. Maybe > you doing something wrong then? Please ask those people how you can rid off > of off-list CC replies. This is incorrect. The proper way to respond to lists in Mutt (especially on Debian lists, where it's policy) is to add the lists to "subscribe", and press "L" (list reply). -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Ignoring the truth or Hiding problems?

2005-01-05 Thread Glenn Maynard
headers to say what he wants, too. It's a lot more time-effective, mail for mail, than trying to teach people how to use their MUA.) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-06 Thread Glenn Maynard
;s a legitimate way to work around blatent copyright abuse, so it gets more slack than blatent SC evasion; but I can't put my finger on any tangible difference in these cases, and maybe there isn't one.) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: rudeness in general

2005-01-09 Thread Glenn Maynard
; above), I just can't bring myself to condemn those who we are unwilling to ignore it completely. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-02-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
For example, the vast majority of the stuff that runs in Wine is non-free--but not all, so Wine goes in main. The relative quantities aren't relevant. (It's not clear whether data beyond the scope of Debian--such as comics being downloaded--are relevant to this, either, but that&#

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-02-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
hat only work with non-free servers. Err, that's what I meant: > (It's not clear whether data beyond the scope of Debian--such as comics > being downloaded--are relevant to this, either, but that's another debate.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Bug#293382: ITP: zen-cart -- simple SQL and php based e-commerce solution

2005-02-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
IT degree, Zen Cart can be installed and > > set-up by anyone with the most basic computer skills. Others are so > > expensive ... not Zen Cart, it's FREE! > > So what does it actually do, besides generate buzzwords? But he seems to be having so much fun writing bad comme

Re: Debug packages cluttering the archive

2005-02-05 Thread Glenn Maynard
usr/bin/strip shows no sign of the -f option mentioned in the info page found from your google search). I had no idea it was even implemented, though. (Aha: the strip tool mentioned is in elfutils, which is non-free. Blah.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Bug#294084: ITP: life -- Linux Instrumentation for Enterprise - a set of WBEM management providers from Novell

2005-02-08 Thread Glenn Maynard
#x27;t know which is most appropriate.) I'd hope it wouldn't be called "life", though. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Verify debian-devel@lists.debian.org for Francois.Mescam@onera.fr

2005-02-13 Thread Glenn Maynard
nconvenience others? (Seems more like an "anti-anyone-mailing-me-at-all" measure, really. Why would anyone put up with this?) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#296369: ITP: spin -- Powerfull model checking and software verification tool

2005-02-21 Thread Glenn Maynard
bably not sufficient to allow redistribution in non-free, either. Please see: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/01/msg00267.html -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amd64 is already the 2nd most important arch (WasRe: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

2005-02-22 Thread Glenn Maynard
tributions, while Debian is, from what I recall, the *only* way to get a sensible Unix installation on many of the less common systems. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: remove

2005-02-23 Thread Glenn Maynard
bscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Read all of the messages. The relevant info is right there. Do it! NOW! Er. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mplayer, the time has come

2005-02-24 Thread Glenn Maynard
) > (Maybe it's time to resurrect non-us) I don't know how many times this can be said: non-us is *not a solution* to patents affecting the US, and never has been. AFAIK, non-us was an archive that was uploaded to from outside the US, but could be freely and legally used from insi

Re: [OT] maildir (was Re: procmail and Large File Support)

2005-02-27 Thread Glenn Maynard
orry, couldn't be helped. :) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#299713: ITP: cvsfs -- Translator for transparent access to cvs repositories

2005-03-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
be used, not just GNU tools. s/GNU //? (Putting "GNU" there reminds me vaguely of the back of a shampoo container: "After shampooing with Pantene(tm) Shampoo, follow up with Pantene(tm) Conditioner, Pantene(tm) skin cleanser, ...") -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Mailing list administration - add default Mail-Followup-To automatically

2005-12-08 Thread Glenn Maynard
ult on most lists: usually, most people in a discussion are subscribed. It makes more sense to me to require that the few people posting to a list unsubscribed set a header saying so, than the majority of people posting subscribed do so. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-18 Thread Glenn Maynard
s out of insert mode" behavior. > - some commands like 'cw' display differently in vim, although the end >result of the keystrokes is the same for all the standard vi commands I >use (don't know) > - nvi flashes the screen/bell when a command fails; vim does not ":set visualbell" -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-18 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 04:44:13PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Glenn Maynard wrote: > > ":set compatible" will switch Vim's behavior for all of these, except for: > > Nope, I was running vim in compatible mode (the default without a > ~/.vimrc) for all of them.

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
library images", though, which is a specific term that clearly excludes shell scripts.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
imple configuration change is a showstopper? (":set compatible noautoindent" in /etc/vim/vimrc.) I havn't seen any significant differences between vi and vim mentioned that aren't trivially fixed. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
er used old vi, so I don't know the accuracy of the claim, but everything listed so far are things that :set compatible "fixes". (Except maybe the display of "cw"--I'm not sure if nvi or vim's display is how vi did it.) [1] http://www.vim.org/viusers.php -- Glen

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 02:37:59PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:58:02PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > > TBH, I think these are showstoppers. Otherwise, as long as the space issue > > > is fixed as you say it is, sounds fine. > > I'm c

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
default, then people who like old vi get it, and people who like new vim can change it with just .vimrc. A rare opportunity--everybody wins. :) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-20 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 01:11:20PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 12:19:16AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > > Well, I get to use other people's systems now and then, and I'm always > > having > > to ask people to install vim. If vim is

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-20 Thread Glenn Maynard
ot with the actual numbers > might make sense. I'd much rather have to use a system with vim and my .vimrc installed, but lacking a few "big" features like syntax highlighting, than have to use nvi. For me, it's a clear win: at least I can edit files. I'm probably

Re: Experiment: poll on "switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?"

2005-12-21 Thread Glenn Maynard
opinion is not interesting; and it would let people get an idea if a lot of people are voting based on rationale that has been discussed and disproven (eg. "vim is huge" and "vim differs too much from vi"). (I wish people had to write a few paragraphs justifying their votes for government elections. Votes in essay format. One can dream ...) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Experiment: poll on "switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?"

2005-12-21 Thread Glenn Maynard
orms Debian supports? -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Experiment: poll on "switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?"

2005-12-21 Thread Glenn Maynard
n't always have the ability to install packages. > Please cc me on replies. This is the only time I'll do so, to remind you to set Mail-Followup-To. It's your job to set headers expressing your preferences (which you only have to do once, in your mailer configuration), not everyone el

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-23 Thread Glenn Maynard
ility from the fact that my fingers have > > If your fingers aren't talking to you, perhaps you should also list them > as MIA. Finger habits are hard to change, especially for an editor like vi. Ridicule is unwarranted. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PHP License for PHP Group packages

2006-02-03 Thread Glenn Maynard
e patch clauses, there are so few of them that it's probably not that big a battle, but if you do want to fight that fight, I don't think "PHP" is any worse than "Apache", so the objection should be extended across the others and not single out PHP. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-09 Thread Glenn Maynard
n in main" before > long. Before or after the next renaming of "creationism", I wonder? -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-10 Thread Glenn Maynard
terms", and how one really could apply the DFSG to texts, but not terms, and end up with something reasonable. Not really a worthy fight, of course, but if you want to formalize an exception, then I think knowing the difference is important. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
sts of the DFSG or not," are you seriously > saying that such a resolution requires only a majority vote? If you take these "interpretive" GRs as not requiring 3:1, then you can bypass the 3:1 requirement entirely merely by phrasing your changes as an "interpretion", and y

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
onstitution. Those loopholes can always be created, if everyone is allowed their own interpretation of the rules; that's not an indication of lack of forethought. Fortunately, as is typically the case, everyone is not allowed their own interpretation of the rules. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
the proposer of this option another reason to think about rewording it: whether editorial or not, the labelling of GR2004-003 as such *has* caused such attacks. If you want invariant sections and the rest of the problems to be considered free, say so.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about GFDL licensed works

2006-02-12 Thread Glenn Maynard
gt; works depend on a package containing a rootkit. This way, their > installation would always comply with the license. Or another popular argument these days, "not being allowed to put a password on your machine is just a practical problem, which doesn't make the license non-free"

Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-12 Thread Glenn Maynard
s with three paragraphs that seemed like a reply to someone arguing "documentation isn't software, so it doesn't have to be free", but nobody was doing that. > -- > ksig --random| er? :) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-12 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 07:41:03AM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 07:53:39PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > Nobody is lying. A "lie" is an untruth made with the intent to > > deceive. Debian doesn't try to hide these unmodifiable lic

Re: {SPAM} Question about GFDL licensed works

2006-02-13 Thread Glenn Maynard
ify that). But it's what it does say, and I don't see how an estoppel argument based on something RMS has said is relevant, when RMS does not own the work. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#352535: ITP: gitmail -- Very simple graphical mail user agent for sending mail (GTK)

2006-02-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
rware (166Mhz / 64 M mem). > > > > But that's just it. It's for *sending* mail only. What is the > > purpose of a GUI for sending mail? > > The small memory footprint. In minimalistic Window manager + > minimalistic program to send mail. Err, who uses GTK

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-20 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 01:45:24PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: > Honestly, I could care less whether it's in contrib or main It's nice to see that Debian Developers actually care about their Social Contract, and hold acceptance by Debian in such high regard. -- Glenn May

Re: A new arch support proposal, hopefully consensual (?)

2005-03-22 Thread Glenn Maynard
tupid. The very phrasing was lightly humerous, not an attack. (I don't know why I'm replying seriously to a nameless top-poster with an email address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", though. My bad. :) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A new arch support proposal, hopefully consensual (?)

2005-03-24 Thread Glenn Maynard
nd there's no References: header, which makes threads much harder to follow, and will probably get you ignored by many people since your posts won't appear in the normal flow of the thread. (I actually do point them out in the hope that you'll fix them. If you don't care enoug

Re: All GPL'ed programs have to go to non-free

2005-04-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
all, unless one limits oneself to public domain works. Adrian, you're deliberately wasting the project's time with a very old, eternity-since-debunked "argument". That's known as "trolling". Unless you have something of value to say, go away. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: All GPL'ed programs have to go to non-free

2005-04-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
t;All GPL'ed programs have to go to non-free" a troll. I believe this is self-evident to everyone reading this thread, so I don't feel obligated to explain myself further. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: All GPL'ed programs have to go to non-free

2005-04-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
nse I've seen in use, including the 2-clause BSD license and the X11 license. FYI, I found the above via google: site:lists.debian.org "license texts" -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: All GPL'ed programs have to go to non-free

2005-04-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
even though as a practical matter Debian would be forced to grumble and accept any problems that are found. (As I mentioned in my last mail, the "unmodifiable license text" "problem" is not GPL-specific.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: What do you win by moving things to non-free?

2005-04-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
ches people that they need non-free things". Here's a tip: it's a *good thing* to teach people that they still need non-free things, if it's the truth; it just might inspire people to create free versions, or convince the FSF to free up their works. That's a fundamental reaso

Re: All GPL'ed programs have to go to non-free

2005-04-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
e one you reference above[1]), people debate them for a while, and opinions change, becoming better formed and more strongly grounded as a result of debate. [1] referring to the current "on hold" SC, per GR 2004-003: http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_003 [2] The link on the DWN page is wrong; a currently accurate one is http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/11/msg00096.html or Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. [3] Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Glenn Maynard

Re: What do you win by moving things to non-free?

2005-04-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
on-free; rather, we don't want gcc's documentation to *be* non-free. The moving to non-free is just a side-effect; Adrian seems to be saying that we should eliminate the side-effect and ignore the core problem. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: What do you win by moving things to non-free?

2005-04-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
non-essential (non-license- text) pieces that *can't be modified at all*, or even removed. (I find it continually disappointing that people will actually argue that completely invariant, untouchable text is "free enough"; I have to wonder why they're even here.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What do you win by moving things to non-free?

2005-04-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
case you'll hear a loud laugher. Maybe, since you conspicuously omitted the "and therefore" part in case 2; the practical problems with invariant sections have been well explored. (I'm not going to waste my time digging up discussions about them for you, since you'll j

Re: What do you win by moving things to non-free?

2005-04-18 Thread Glenn Maynard
nd why a given restriction is non-free. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What do you win by moving things to non-free?

2005-04-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
cumbersome, but I do > feel that the mixture of different "freeness" in non-free is a bit > unfair for those pieces of software that just fail a small point. I don't believe "forbidden to be modified in any way" to be a "small point". -- Glenn Maynard -- T

Re: All GPL'ed programs have to go to non-free

2005-04-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
this is irrelevant: if people really think that non-free documentation should be allowed in Debian, propose a GR to allow it. Nothing short of that will make it so. If people really think they were "tricked", fine--fix it with another GR. Unless and until that happens, Debian's po

Re: What do you win by moving things to non-free?

2005-04-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
d remain in Debian because you're not able to do so. Your argument here can just as easily be applied to anything non-free; would you seriously claim that, if Qmail was in main and I was to file a bug against it for being non-free, that it should remain in main until I write a replaceme

Re: What do you win by moving things to non-free?

2005-04-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:31:53PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:03:07AM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 05:31:52AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > If you really want to retain your "everything is software" point of

Re: All GPL'ed programs have to go to non-free

2005-04-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
tly clear: documentation must be Free, according to the DFSG, and nothing short of another GR will change that. I believe this to be obvious and self-evident. (The rest is tangental, and this conversation has too many mini-threads, so I'm leaving it at that.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: All GPL'ed programs have to go to non-free

2005-04-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
m willing to continue arguments pertaining to the GFDL, but these "we didn't *really* want to require documentation to be free" arguments are going nowhere and are a waste of time, so I'm dropping them. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More about GFDL

2005-04-23 Thread Glenn Maynard
For which the simple answer is: > > Read http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml > > I have the same question around for some months. > I have read the link above but I didn't find any reply. > Any extra clue? Those of us on d-legal have no idea what your q

Re: Publicly available mbox archives of debian mailing lists + Bug#161440

2005-04-28 Thread Glenn Maynard
ur collective memory." I'd hope that such a header as "No-External-Archive" would never be honored (except perhaps to bounce the message--the only acceptable way to not be archived is to not post). [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/03/msg00091.html -- Glenn Ma

Re: Publicly available mbox archives of debian mailing lists + Bug#161440

2005-04-28 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 05:28:46PM +1000, Pascal Hakim wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 03:03 -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > > They might one day. It's possible to restrict http://lists.debian.org to > > > stop or slow down people leeching across the web archives. > &g

Re: Bug#306268: ITP: connect -- Establish socket connection using SOCKS4 or 5 and HTTP tunnel.

2005-04-28 Thread Glenn Maynard
me--so please don't dismiss it. Package names are a shared namespace, and must be chosen intelligently. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Publicly available mbox archives of debian mailing lists + Bug#161440

2005-04-28 Thread Glenn Maynard
ered". Making mboxes available wouldn't make things any easier for address harvesters. (In practice I don't spend much time reading old threads, and it's more convenient to read a couple messages by Googling for a Message-ID than to download big mboxes. I wouldn't use them ve

Re: GPL and linking

2005-05-09 Thread Glenn Maynard
at your option") like the GPL's be used in a shrink-wrap license? I also don't understand why you're so opposed to it. Why should I not be able to say "you can distribute under these conditions; in addition, John may offer you a new license in the future, terms which you may accept or ignore"? -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pine license

2005-05-10 Thread Glenn Maynard
ast, UW has (in my opinion) played deliberate word games to retroactively revoke the Freeness of a prior Pine license, and this license is clearly non-free *without* any such stretching or contriving. -- Glenn Maynard Pine License and Legal Notices Pine and Pico are registered trademarks of the

Re: pine license

2005-05-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 12:28:29AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > On 5/10/05, Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the past, UW has (in my opinion) played deliberate word games to > > retroactively revoke the Freeness of a prior Pine license, and this license &g

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