Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-13 Thread Joel Baker
[ If you're being impatient about resolving this, please see the bottom ] [ of the email for an imporant bit of information... ] [ snip ] On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 04:27:27PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 10:29:05AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > >

Re: Binaries under GPL(2)

2003-12-13 Thread Alexander Cherepanov
8-Dec-03 20:43 Walter Landry wrote: > Alexander Cherepanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 4-Dec-03 20:44 Walter Landry wrote: >> > Alexander Cherepanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> 30-Nov-03 16:37 Don Armstrong wrote: >> >> > If you read section 2 this way, then there is no need for a section 3

Re: Binaries under GPL(2)

2003-12-13 Thread Alexander Cherepanov
25-Nov-03 17:59 Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Alexander Cherepanov wrote: >> Sure source is a big plus:-) But there are many "binaries" where the >> lack of source is not that fatal -- bitmap pictures generated from >> layered source, PostScript/PDF generated from TeX, info generated

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 09:28:12AM +0430, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > Legally speaking, you're right. Now, on more practical grounds, I do > > not think that the NetBSD Foundation threatened to sue us. > I didn't say they did. They did identify

Re: Status of new LPPL version?

2003-12-13 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 04:09:37PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > does anybody know what is going to happen with regard to LPPL-1.3, and > in which timeline? The latest mails I found were > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200306/msg00206.html > (a new draft) > > and two an

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-13 Thread Branden Robinson
[I am not subscribed to debian-bsd.] On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 09:28:12AM +0430, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 11:54:09AM -0500, > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > a message of 126 lines which said: > > > Debian either needs a trademark license from the NetBSD

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-13 Thread Branden Robinson
[I am not subscribed to debian-bsd.] On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 10:29:05AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > [ Adding -legal to the Cc; it may become inappropriate for -devel, at ] > [ some point, in which case folks should remove the -devel Cc. The -bsd ] > [ Cc should probably remain no matter what,

Re: Bug#223819: RFA: murasaki -- another HotPlug Agent

2003-12-13 Thread Frank Küster
Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > | The problem is that a Debian package has not the right to modify > | automaticaly things under the /etc dir. That means that murasaki > | itself is not allowed to write anything in /etc/murasaki/*. [...] > | -From the Debian policy : > | "Note that