Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-09-17 Thread Brian C
Richard Stallman wrote: The question at hand is whether Debian should accept or reject GFDL-covered manuals. The argument for that is that there are many such manuals and they would be useful to include, and the DFSG can be interpreted to accept it. As one of those more inclined to listen to t

Re: A WDL.

2003-09-13 Thread Brian C
I'm a little concerned about merely offering a link to things. FSF has always argued against this as regards offers of source, in particular because there are parts of the world where 56k access speeds would be fast, and because some are charged per minute for such access. Perhaps documentation

Re: Some licensing questions regarding celestia

2003-09-08 Thread Brian C
A week ago Mika asked two legal questions and a Debian-policy question. I'm not sure this extensive thread has managed to answer his questions yet (or recently whether it has even been addressing them.) Some looking around on the web revealed that Dan Ravicher, one of the pro-bono attorneys f

Re: Nathanael Nerode's GNU FDL FAQ has fallen off the web

2003-09-05 Thread Brian C
It seems the ISP just did some re-arranging. I found it at: http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html I get the error described if I leave out the "home". Branden Robinson wrote: On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:49:16AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Such as, for instance, my web page http:

Re: Some licensing questions regarding celestia

2003-09-03 Thread Brian C
Don Armstrong wrote: The forms of the license are formed and founded in Contract Law. Contract Law is what enables you to make such a legaly binding agreement. Licenses obey the forms of either a contract or a lease or they are not legally valid. [At least, I have yet to year a good argument for