Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:38:10PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 11:17:06PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 04:56:37PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > > > It resembles describing charity as "investment with no return". > > Perhaps; though there are diff

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:17:06 +1000 Anthony Towns wrote: > > Well, it's not an inaccurate description (I think), but you would > > use such a definition only if you think that charity is a stupid > > thing to do... > > So, if I'm parsing you right, you're saying that a person (such as > myself) wo

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 11:17:06PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 04:56:37PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > > It resembles describing charity as "investment with no return". > > Perhaps; though there are differences. Charity does have returns: both > emotionally/psychologica

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:21:38 +1000, Anthony Towns said: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 06:59:41AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: >> > On Nov 13, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I think the best reason to ask or require contributors

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Andrew Saunders
On 11/14/05, Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I case you hadn't noticed, there was a major _difference_ in opionons > about how "software" was to be interpreted. The editorial > clarification in 2004-003 removed the confusion by avoiding the > ambiguous word "software" Unfortunately n

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 06:59:41AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > > On Nov 13, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I think the best reason to ask or require contributors to licenses > >> their papers in a DFSG form is so that Debian ca

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 04:56:37PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 11:28:41 +1000 Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 07:26:55PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > > > I disagree with your calling "licensing in a DFSG-free manner" as > > > "giving up rights": this seems

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