Re: In search of Matt Hoppe

2007-06-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Dmitry E. Oboukhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-06-01 16:27]: > I wait an answer from Matt Hope, but if he won't answer to messages > from another developers. Try talking to Pascal Hakim (CCed). He might know what's up with Matt. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com

Re: Origins of debian "swirl"

2005-08-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-04 13:47]: > Why don't we just find the creator and ask him? > The original image is named raul-0.gif, so somebody named Raul made the > image. (Was this Raul D. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]) No, Raul Silva. -- Martin Michlmayr h

Re: Any progress on Debian logos?

2005-07-29 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-27 22:13]: > In this thread[1], the previous DPL (Martin Michlmayr) stated that the > issue was worked on. > But I got no more news since that time. I told the new DPL back in April what needs to be done. He (or, really, anyone) just

Re: handling Mozilla with kid gloves [was: GUADEC report]

2005-02-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
a link. This is really only helpful for people who are very keen on following -legal anyway. For others, a summary in the style of Kernel Traffic (http://www.kernel-traffic.org/kernel-traffic/index.html) would be more appropriate; of course, such summaries are also more work. -- Martin Michlma

Re: Are Debian logos still non-free?

2005-02-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
o send another reminder to the list. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Are Debian logos still non-free?

2005-02-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
arist of the logo has agreed to sign it and thereby hand ownership over to SPI. Once this is done, we can change the license. At the moment, we're waiting for SPI and the artist to sign this agreement. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: handling Mozilla with kid gloves [was: GUADEC report]

2005-01-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
s improved but that -legal could do a better job at communicating their ideas to people who don't have time to follow the list. For example, I don't think that many people are aware of http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/ and the page is also fairly incomplete; http://wiki.debian.net/ind

Re: handling Mozilla with kid gloves [was: GUADEC report]

2005-01-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
east in some cases. [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/10/msg00175.html [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/10/msg00195.html -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: handling Mozilla with kid gloves [was: GUADEC report]

2005-01-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
y MJ Ray (from the same discussion) have been the longest outstanding messages I have to respond to. I'll do so now. As to your message above: yes, I agree that the snide remark I made was inappropriate and I hereby apologize for it. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: d-fsl - German Free Software License

2004-12-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
* Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-12-14 20:55]: > Definition as well as the DFSG and have asked for out input. When we > originally started the discussion, the license had not been published > so I asked Don Armstrong and Matthew Garrett privatel

d-fsl - German Free Software License

2004-12-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
Deutschen Freien Software Lizenz? Um jedermann den Abschluss dieser Lizenz zu ermöglichen, wird empfohlen, das Programm mit folgendem Hinweis auf die Lizenz zu versehen: "Copyright (C) 20[jj] [Name des Rechtsinhabers]. Dieses Programm kann durch jedermann gemäß den Bestimmungen der Deutschen Freien Software Lizenz genutzt werden. Die Lizenz kann unter <http://www.d-fsl.de> abgerufen werden." -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Hardened project (question about use of the "Debian" trademark)

2004-09-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
sonally feel that this name has the same problems that "Trusted Debian" has - it suggests that "normal" Debian is not secure. In any case, I think you should post your question to debian-project rather than -legal since -project is more appropriate and might get more feedback. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#265352: grub: Debian splash images for Grub

2004-08-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
h SPI's trademark lawyer and others on spi-trademark. What would a good license for the logo be? -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "remove this package from another developer" (was: Bug#251983: Please remove libcwd from main; it is licensed under the QPL, which is non-free.)

2004-07-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
ference is that ftpmaster actually has authority over the archive (including licensing issues) whereas -legal doesn't and therefore can only play an advisory role. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: handling Mozilla with kid gloves [was: GUADEC report]

2004-07-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
x27;s useful and once it's clear who would be a good candidate for that. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fwd: reiser4 non-free?

2004-05-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
ng away from XFree86. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

NASA Open Source License Still Up For Discussion

2004-02-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr
As per the recent discussion, I thought I'd mention http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/21/230259.shtml (NASA Open Source License Still Up For Discussion). -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-legal review of licenses

2004-02-18 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
s and that, and this is why it is different to the OSI guidelines and we why feel it is important to comply with the DFSG." I don't think such a mail would be perceived as rude. Some people might ignore it and not care, but I cannot see people seeing it as rude. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-legal review of licenses

2004-02-18 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
hances of a Single Official Summarizer not being buried under Yes, which is also why I'm relucant to appoint one delegate for this right now. It would be good if a group of people would do it and after a few months we see automatically who the people are who are doing it regularly. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-legal review of licenses

2004-02-18 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
iscussion, post a summary to -legal to get the "ok" and then send it on. We don't necessarily need one specific person to do that - what we need are volunteers willing to do it. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-legal review of licenses

2004-02-18 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
* Simon Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-02-11 18:01]: > I'm willing to take on a position to summarize our discussions, > and present them to upstream. I think I can do this diplomatically, and > I have some experience with this. (I was responsible for ironing out

Re: debian-legal review of licenses

2004-02-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
don't care as much as we). My prime example is OLS. Many people (e.g. Alan Cox) think it's a great license, and it will and is being used by projects. This is a loss for us and for the free software community, and if possible we should try to make licenses DFSG free. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-legal review of licenses

2004-02-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
gal to be more proactive and talk to upstream authors of licenses instead of waiting for them to contact us. I'd like to hear what other people from -legal think. I'm certainly not going to appoint anyone without the consent of -legal since this is just not the way it can work. But perhaps we can find a solution together. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Public review period for Creative Commons 2.0 license draft

2004-01-27 Thread Martin Michlmayr
exceeded Please fix this. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[fielding@apache.org: Review of proposed Apache License, version 2.0]

2003-11-08 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
to our projects. Cheers, Roy T. Fielding, director, The Apache Software Foundation (fielding AT apache.org) <http://roy.gbiv.com/> [*] ApacheCon is in Las Vegas, Nov 16-19 <http://www.apachecon.com/> - End forwarded message - -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: the presence of GNU FDL-licensed works in sarge

2003-11-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
th My point was that we knew about the SSL linking problem before the release. (I have not checked the archived, but I'm fairly sure this was the case.) [And before I'm cited out of context, my original sentence was followed by "However, I don't want to use this example to justify further violations".] -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DFSG-freeness issues and "sarge-ignore"

2003-10-29 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
; and licensing issues is. I'm afraid I cannot give you an answer to this. As you should know from http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200308/msg00010.html or #97671, "sarge-ignore" is used and defined by the Release Manager. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: committee for FSF-Debian discussion

2003-10-09 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
and asked them about their opinion, and there were no objections with having Don on this committee. I also tried asking Bruce, but he hasn't responded yet. > the stages of the NM process, pledged to uphold the Social Contract He has agreed to uphold the Social Contract in private mail to

Re: Is the OSL DFSG free?

2003-10-08 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
Has anyone tried talking to the author of OSL in order to get the license changed? -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: committee for FSF-Debian discussion

2003-10-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
ll, who I have just appointed as Debian representative in the discussion with FSF. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: committee for FSF-Debian discussion

2003-10-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
Benj. "Mako" Hill, Debian. I hereby appoint Mako Hill as Debian's delegate in this committee, representing Debian. All official communication related to GFDL discussions with the FSF should, if possible, go through him. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Opinion needed - included component w/o licensing doc

2002-04-28 Thread Martin Michlmayr
he package said the tools were public domain, even those not marked as such. Does that help, or is it not clear enough? I suppose this is not "good enough" and that metrics should be removed, but I'm not positive. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: ITP: its4

2000-11-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
> We do not derive anything. We compile and distribute the software > and include the license, as permitted. That is not the problem. We *do* derive since you made changes to the upstream. However, renaming the package should solve this problem. I'm CCing debian-legal@lists.debian.org and preserving the relevant copyright notice above, so we get some real advice. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]