Re: Debian trademark [was: Debian GNU/w32, may ready to be started?]

2001-12-03 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:43:09PM -0500, Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > We make no restriction that Debian GNU/Linux packages can not be installed > > on a Sun OS, do we? Why should we have anythi

Re: Debian trademark [was: Debian GNU/w32, may ready to be started?]

2001-12-03 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:43:09PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: > >> The policy statement on http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19980306a says: > > >> We allow all businesses to make reasonable use of the "Debian" >

Re: Debian trademark [was: Debian GNU/w32, may ready to be started?]

2001-12-03 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 3 Dec 2001, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 3 Dec 2001, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > > > > Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > RMS approached Debian nearly

Re: Debian trademark [was: Debian GNU/w32, may ready to be started?]

2001-12-03 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 3 Dec 2001, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > RMS approached Debian nearly insisting that the distro be called Debian > > GNU/Linux because of the large component of GNU sofware in the distro. Why > > would he have any

Re: Debian trademark [was: Debian GNU/w32, may ready to be started?]

2001-12-03 Thread Dale Scheetz
by the DFSG. Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of "Dwarf's Guide to Debian GNU/Linux" _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_- _- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 _- _- Flexible Software

Re: Debian trademark [was: Debian GNU/w32, may ready to be started?]

2001-12-03 Thread Dale Scheetz
1AM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Steve Langasek wrote: > > >> On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 09:49:03AM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: > >>> Please consider that RMS created the LGPL specificly to allow glibc to be > >>> installed on, and used by, non

Re: fair use of the word Debian

1999-03-12 Thread Dale Scheetz
desire, and have mixed feelings about the second. Control is always so temprary, at best. We would be better off letting the "moral objections" of the community, guide the use of the name, than to ever try to "define" adequate use requirements. But I've been wrong be

Re: [URGENT] Logo license

1999-02-26 Thread Dale Scheetz
ercial" distribution, based on Debian, almost totally impossible. I certainly wouldn't be able to use the logo on any Debian products that I might distribute, and I would find that disapointing. Waiting is, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of "The Debian Linux User's Guide"

Re: GPL v LGPL for libraries

1998-12-15 Thread Dale Scheetz
. For me it is more free, as it lets more software execute not less. I also feel that such software, by competing in a free environment, will be encouraged to become more free as well. I give, as an example, Netscape. If libc6 were not under the LGPL, then Netscape could never have run on a Linux mach

Re: Ian's DFSG2 would harm Debian and Free Software

1998-12-03 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 4 Dec 1998, Jens Ritter wrote: > Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 3 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] > > > How does the GPL endanger the original copyright or the continued freedom > > > of that source? > > > > It

Re: Ian's DFSG2 would harm Debian and Free Software

1998-12-03 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 3 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dale Scheetz writes: > > With a proper license forking is no problem, and the freedom that is > > maintained is the users freedom to choose the original work over the > > forked version. Properly used "immutable source" provi