Re: SURVEY: Is the GNU FDL a DFSG-free license?

2003-08-21 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
Free Software and thus eligible for inclusion in the Debian OS. > > [ ] None of the above statements approximates my opinion. > > Part 2. Status of Respondent > > Please mark with an "X" the following item only if it is true. > > [ X ] I am a Debian

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-26 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
ieve that "there is no such Good on Earth that is worth a single child's teardrop", can you at least agree that _some_ methods are not worth the goal, and that _some_ cure is worse than the desease? -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-27 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:01:40PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 08:21:43PM +0300, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote: > > Every? That sounds just like "Noble goal justifies vile means". Even > > if you don't believe that "there is no such Good

Re: Preferred license for documentation

2003-09-11 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
opyright holder.' to the license reference or copy. Which means that each OPL-licensed work should be examined for these options, which, if enabled, make it non-free. -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: "Robinson, Nerode and other free beer zealots" was: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-15 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
and liberty to take away, and liberty to take away liberty. As I've shown above, liberty to remove material _can_ be essential. -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: GFDL

2003-10-03 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
aw that line, which is also an important factor when speaking in _social_ context. -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: Bug#92810: doc-rfc license

2002-03-01 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:14:54AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 03:05:23PM +0200, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote: > > This bus is open for 11 months already (since 03 Apr 2001), and > > doc-rfc maintainer told the world that he is not going to do > > any

[RFC] Modification history as a source code

2003-06-17 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
in solving the ultimate task of creating a unified copyleft license. -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: [RFC] Modification history as a source code

2003-06-19 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
#x27;m dead. The only difference between source as a source code and source as a revision history is size, and I intentionally limited your responsibility to only the modifications that you make, in order to guarantee that both source size and amount of effort and money spent is finite and marginal in comparison with effort and money spent on producing the modification in question. -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: [RFC] Modification history as a source code

2003-06-19 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
he original version, so that the whole chain can be restored at any moment. GPL only takes care of 'source code v2 -> binary' part. -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: Defining 'preferred form for making modifications'

2003-06-22 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
logical order. Also, if you want to use 'the most informative' as a guideline to determining the 'preferred form for making modifications', revision history is definitely more informative than either of these versions alone. -- Dmitry Borodaenko

Re: [RFC] Modification history as a source code

2003-06-22 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
comparison with effort DB>> and money spent on producing the modification in question. AD> The storage space may be. The network bandwidth may be. The effort AD> organizing it (and fulfilling requests) probably isn't, at least AD> for small works. This is something that we have to figure out, I still believe that there are ways to address all the difficulties you've pointed out. -- Dmitry Borodaenko