Re: Debian Official Use Logo is packaged in desktop-base

2004-05-01 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Mahesh T. Pai said on Sat, May 01, 2004 at 10:01:44AM +0530,: > > debian-legal: Have there been any new conclusions about the > > Official Use logo that I'm forgetting, or should a bug be filed > > against desktop-base? > > IIRC, discussion on this list have concluded that t

Debian Official Use Logo is packaged in desktop-base

2004-05-01 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:06:35PM -0400, Michael Poole wrote: > Having said that, though, I will not argue further over the definition > of software. You will not change my mind, and I doubt I will change > yours. I also do not think it is so important: As long as the DFSG > refers to packaged/d

Re: Debian Official Use Logo is packaged in desktop-base

2004-05-01 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 10:16:32AM +0530, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2003/debian-project-200310/msg00020.html > > Ummm... by somebody called Glenn Maynard. Right; that's the same thread I linked earlier (or the small subset of it that was CC'd to debian-project

Re: RFC: Debian License Information on www.debian.org

2004-05-01 Thread Jakob Bohm
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 03:49:34AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > Hi. > > http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/ (and every other mirror of > course). > > Please take a look and comment. The pages are currently not linked nor > mentioned on the rest of the website. I will add this after giving

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-05-01 Thread Michael Poole
Glenn Maynard writes: >> That does not mean that software freedom should be the only freedom >> that Debian pursues, but it does not help to pretend that Free >> Software is the same thing as Free License Texts or Free Reference >> Documentation or Free Speech. > > It does not help to pretend that

Re: Debian Official Use Logo is packaged in desktop-base

2004-05-01 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Glenn Maynard said on Sat, May 01, 2004 at 12:07:42AM -0400,: > debian-legal: Have there been any new conclusions about the > Official Use logo that I'm forgetting, or should a bug be filed > against desktop-base? IIRC, discussion on this list have concluded that the official log

Re: Open Publication License

2004-05-01 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:08:37PM +0200, Nagy Viktor wrote: > OPL requires the reproduced document to contain the incorporation of > license by reference in the form "Copyright (c) ... This material may > be distributed ...". Is it OK to substitute it with an > equivalent translation in an Non-En

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-05-01 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:06:35PM -0400, Michael Poole wrote: > Glenn Maynard writes: > > >> That does not mean that software freedom should be the only freedom > >> that Debian pursues, but it does not help to pretend that Free > >> Software is the same thing as Free License Texts or Free Refere

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-05-01 Thread Lewis Jardine
Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: Ah that's an interesting point. TCP/IP is a standard, so it's non free... Maybe all implementation of that should go in contrib so, because they 'depend' on a piece of 'something' which is not free. So, we have to move the whole kernel there, and oh sure, libc to

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-05-01 Thread Michael Poole
Francesco Paolo Lovergine writes: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:06:35PM -0400, Michael Poole wrote: >> To adapt an analogy that someone used earlier, when you go to a store, >> you might find fonts, images, or other data in a box in the software >> section. However, you are not likely to find a sp

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-05-01 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-05-01 04:06:35 +0100 Michael Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To adapt an analogy that someone used earlier, when you go to a store, you might find fonts, images, or other data in a box in the software section. However, you are not likely to find a specification for TCP/IP in the softwa

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-05-01 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Francesco Paolo Lovergine dijo [Sat, May 01, 2004 at 11:40:08AM +0200]: > > To adapt an analogy that someone used earlier, when you go to a store, > > you might find fonts, images, or other data in a box in the software > > section. However, you are not likely to find a specification for > > TCP/I

Re: Fwd: reiser4 non-free?

2004-05-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 05:33:51PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > Jeremy Hankins wrote: > > Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>What alternative do you offer to ensure that attribution occurs? > >>None. There is no alternative actually. > > > > > > Exactly: we offer no

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-05-01 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 10:24:59AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > I can understand some gift not meeting your standards, but it goes > much too far to characterize the giver of disappointing gift as > 'reprehensible'. I find it extremely difficult to classify the GFDL as a "gift". > The trade-off th

Re: RFC: Debian License Information on www.debian.org

2004-05-01 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 10:29:13PM -0400, Jeremy Hankins wrote: > Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I just completed the first version of these pages (loosly based on the > > pages of the security team), put them online and added a first > > license, OPL, based on the summary on

Re: RFC: Debian License Information on www.debian.org

2004-05-01 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 06:47:31AM -0700, Grant Bowman wrote: > * Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040430 01:47]: > > * Mahesh T. Pai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040430 10:40]: > > > 1. where should somebody go to if (s)he wants to check if the FOO > > > license is DFSG compliant? Obviously, lice

Re: RFC: Debian License Information on www.debian.org

2004-05-01 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:17:29AM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > * Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-30 03:49]: > > I just completed the first version of these pages (loosly based on the > > pages of the security team), put them online and added a first > > license, OPL, based on the

Re: RFC: Debian License Information on www.debian.org

2004-05-01 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 04:12:28AM +0100, Lewis Jardine wrote: > >Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>I just completed the first version of these pages (loosly based on the > >>pages of the security team), put them online and added a first > >>license, OPL, based on the summar

Re: RFC: Debian License Information on www.debian.org

2004-05-01 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 03:35:04AM +0200, Jakob Bohm wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 03:49:34AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/ (and every other mirror of > > course). > > > > Please take a look and comment. The pages are currently not linked nor > > ment

Re: Not inherently free, but inherently non-free?

2004-05-01 Thread andy
On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 12:23:51PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Actually, the GFDL is quite clear: you aren't allowed distribute on an > encypted medium even if it's accompanied by a freely readable medium -- you > can't even *make* a copy on an encrypted medium, according to the line I > qu

Re: Debian Official Use Logo is packaged in desktop-base

2004-05-01 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sat, 1 May 2004, Glenn Maynard wrote: > The Official Use logo is not under DFSG-free terms, and by my understanding, > it isn't intended to be. It is not allowed in the Debian archive. I don't > believe this is silly, bizarre or hypocritical. > I on the other hand think it is all of the abov