Re: A concrete proposal

2001-12-15 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This problem affects the GPL itself as well, and the last time the FSF > moved it was handled via silent replacement of the license text. I even > wrote the Lintian check for that :-) But the GPL has explicit provisions > that allow such upgrading,

Re: A concrete proposal

2001-12-15 Thread Richard Braakman
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 09:43:08PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Sections like the "Distribution" section are very common in software; > I was assuming that it counted as text incidental to the license. The > Distribution section is rather more verbose, but it's very common to > have licens

Re: A concrete proposal

2001-12-15 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 09:00:00PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > The following is a concrete proposal, but it has two very important > BLANKS in it, with some suggested things that could fill in the > BLANKS. My purpose in giving this is that I think we can all agree > abou

Re: A concrete proposal

2001-12-14 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Anthony Towns writes: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 09:22:20PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > If I understand it right, his proposal would fit into BLANKTWO as > > follows: > > BLANKTWO OPTION AT: ", if they are debian-doc, various" > > This would make the operative sentence: > > "In additi

Re: A concrete proposal

2001-12-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 09:22:20PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > If I understand it right, his proposal would fit into BLANKTWO as > follows: > BLANKTWO OPTION AT: ", if they are debian-doc, various" > This would make the operative sentence: > "In addition, packages may contain, if they ar

Re: A concrete proposal

2001-12-14 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
I omitted Anthony Towns's "debian-doc" proposal from my list of options here. If I understand it right, his proposal would fit into BLANKTWO as follows: BLANKTWO OPTION AT: ", if they are debian-doc, various" This would make the operative sentence: "In addition, packages may contain, if th

A concrete proposal

2001-12-14 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
The following is a concrete proposal, but it has two very important BLANKS in it, with some suggested things that could fill in the BLANKS. My purpose in giving this is that I think we can all agree about everything here except the BLANKS themselves. This might help move us along towards