Why TPM+Parallel Distribution is non-free

2006-10-06 Thread Terry Hancock
I have been a Debian user for several years now, an occasional free software developer, and a user of the Creative Commons By-SA license, so I have been following the effort to make the CCPL3.0 comply with the Debian Free Software Guidelines with some interest. I used to post here on debian-leg

Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-06 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 07:09:53AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > It is not reasonable for the project to vote on questions of legality, nor > is it appropriate to rely on debian-legal for questions of legality. If the May I remind that debian-legal is a mailing list ? > relevant delegates/maint

Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
In linux.debian.legal Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Since i am seen as not trusthy to analyze such problems, i think to deblock >this situation, it would be best to have a statement from debian-legal to back >those claims (or to claim i am wrong in the above). In the context of the kern

Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in source packages (was: Re: Are source packages required to be DFSG-free?)

2006-10-06 Thread Simon Josefsson
Bug #390664 inspired me to look in source packages for IETF RFC/I-D's too, and the situation seem to be more problematic. I've put a list of packages in testing (as of a few days ago, my mirror is slow) that appear to contain IETF RFC or I-D's at: http://josefsson.org/bcp78broken/ietf-in-src.txt

Re: Public discussion time for Creative Commons 3.0 license draft coming to a close

2006-10-06 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Evan, I will subscribe to the list and support it. Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant Am 2006-10-02 16:49:14, schrieb Evan Prodromou: > So, for those of you who want to see Creative Commons l

Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 11:18:09AM +0300, Markus Laire wrote: > On 10/6/06, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'd defer to Larry Doolittle on this one, but I think unless we have > >some reason to think there is another form used as source code, it's > >fine to consider the only codes our source

Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-06 Thread Markus Laire
On 10/6/06, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd defer to Larry Doolittle on this one, but I think unless we have some reason to think there is another form used as source code, it's fine to consider the only codes our source code - for all we know, it was written that way. Best of all would be