libdvdcss in non-us?

2004-07-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
rmore, there is no reason for us to have problems if it is distributed in non-us. Wouldn't it be an appropriate place to distribute it? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `-

Re: GPL and command-line libraries

2004-11-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
all a derivative work. Whether it is linked to it using ELF or not is irrelevant. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

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

2003-08-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
> [ X ] I am a Debian Developer as described in the Debian > Constitution as of the date on this survey. > > === CUT HERE === -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

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

2003-08-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
e explain which guidelines you intend to apply to documentation then? I'm rather curious to see which language tricks you will be using to justify the GFDL being free. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'

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

2003-08-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
t looks about 2 out of 3 of people who answered this survey disagree with your vision of pure FDL, so I'm afraid the "obviously" term should be removed from your analysis. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
like to call them ? OH MY GOD, WE DON'T INCLUDE ACROBAT IN DEBIAN MAIN, THIS IS *CENSORSHIP*, WE HAVE NO RIGHT TO EXCLUDE IT FROM DISTRIBUTION! -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
ributor have more control of the package contents in this case. So > FDL shifts control over specific parts of the documentation to software > author. Do you realize you are reasoning just like the proprietary software folks the FDL is supposedly meant to fight ? -- .''`

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

2003-08-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
the DFSG? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
absolutely no idea of what you are talking about. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lun 25/08/2003 à 08:38, Sergey V. Spiridonov a écrit : > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > Do you realize you are reasoning just like the proprietary software > > folks the FDL is supposedly meant to fight ? > > There is a basic difference between free software foundation

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
#x27;t restrict freedom of users? You are a completely dumb moron. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
ue to lack of manpower. As for GPL 3, do you intend to use clauses similar to invariant sections or to the technical measures stuff in GFDL section 2? This is a matter of concern on this list. Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTEC

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

2003-08-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lun 25/08/2003 à 16:21, Fedor Zuev a écrit : > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > >Le lun 25/08/2003 ? 09:22, Fedor Zuev a ?crit : > >> When you try to apply license outside of its scope you should expect > >> to receive funny results. GFDL has

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lun 25/08/2003 à 20:32, Sergey V. Spiridonov a écrit : > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > GPL doesn't take away freedom. It is a copyleft, full stop. As long as > > you respect the copyleft, you are free to do anything you want with the > > software. There is no limit

Re: Documentation and Sarge's Release Critical Policy

2003-08-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
hat Jérôme is not fluent in French either. The translated clause writes as: « Debian demeurera un ensemble logiciel totalement libre. » This sentence is perfectly clear, and can not be read as: « L'ensemble des logiciels dans Debian demeureront totalement libres. » However, I believe Jérôme can re

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
86-disassembler, which assure compilable output, in the world. Funny one. I am sure you will point us to a magical OCR that can gather structural information and extract e.g. scientific formulas from a document. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :'

Re: Documentation and Sarge's Release Critical Policy

2003-08-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
was hard to know how to understand your sayings. I did believe you had read the translation, so sorry if my answer seemed a bit rude, it was not meant to. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
cide not to use Emacs at all, if he will > know, that Emacs and Manifesto written by the same man. (Btw, this > if a far more usual and far more honest behavior, than strip > Manifesto and continue to use it) You don't understand what free software is about. -- .&#

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
reasoning, we don't need any free software. > I believe in most cases we can agree with such a limitation. Oh, but we already agree with such limitations. In the non-free section. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `&

Debian logo DFSG-freeness

2003-08-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
use of e.g. the backgrounds. It would be more clever to dual-license it under either the current license or another license; an old-style BSD license with advertising clause or a simple copyleft license come up as reasonable choices. Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
uments in Debian, and you imply that we need to change our minds, and you don't need to change your license. That's not the way things work. You are free not to change your license, and we are free to drop your documents if we feel your license is not suitable. Regar

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
? Or you can do *whatever you > want*? I do not think there could be answer "yes" to both questions. Blah, blah, blah. Come back when you have learned to read. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
n where they can talk about the best for our users, when they prominently advocate the use of invariant sections, and spread misinformation about non-free software we distribute. Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `&#

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le ven 29/08/2003 à 16:09, Mathieu Roy a écrit : > The DFSG itself does not meet the DFSG itself, if you think that no > text can be invariant. Do you intend to repeat the whole load of silly things we have read during last week on this list? -- .''`.

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

2003-08-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
sensus on this list to tell whether or not a license is DFSG-free. And the consensus is clear, even if we add your voice to the survey. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `-

Re: [was A possible GFDL compromise] documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
be of any interest. Sorry. "We" meaning "a large majority of people reading this list". I thought it was pretty obvious in my email. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

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

2003-08-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
n be as purely aware as you. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

Re: Can I modify the DFSG (and not derive from)?

2003-08-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
nd OSI. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
the DFSG, only the name has to be changed. If the GFDL had such a clause instead of invariant sections, it would be considered free. > Too bad, the DFSG still do not meet the DFSG if the GFDL do not meet > the DFSG. Wrong. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :'

(completely OFF-TOPIC)

2003-08-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
learn not to choke at each of Mathieu's intervention. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
cal measures" clause is not a burden for users? You must be joking. This clause has a direct effect on all users, restricting the use of e.g. encrypted filesystems. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
t I'll guess you'll go on ignoring what was already said in this thread, repeating things again and again.) -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux --

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
u forbid others to put a copy in a private directory with 0600 permissions. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Descript

Re: Does the Official Debian Logo fail the DFSG test?

2003-09-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
he > Debian distribution. True, but the swirl logo fails the DFSG as well, as you can only use it to refer to the project, and it doesn't allow explicitly other uses. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Debian logo in main. If you find it in a package, please report a serious bug against it. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signatu

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
r), it is a mark of approval by the community of Debian developers (read: it is on the Renault dealer's sign). -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
Writing specific guidelines for documentation or data would lead straightly to the same definition. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom sig

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
rm, software. > The freedom objectives are the same but they are > small differences. Name them. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The pow

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-09-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
website DFSG-free. We are explaining that all parts of the Debian operating system, including documentations (BUT NOT THE OFFICIAL DEBIAN LOGO WHICH IS NOT PART OF THE DEBIAN OPERATING SYSTEM), must be DFSG-free. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' :

Re: License requirements for DSP binaries?

2003-09-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
here equates the source. But if they were written using a higher-level language, it makes them more hardly suitable for main. However, if modifying them is achievable and potentially useful, they could be considered the same as bitmap pictures when the layered source is missing.

Re: License requirements for DSP binaries?

2003-09-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lun 22/09/2003 à 16:04, Sam Hocevar a écrit : > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > If the binaries were entirely written using assembly code, the binary > > here equates the source. > >This is very rarely true. Even assembly code has varia

Re: Starting to talk

2003-09-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
AND yeupou AND Fedor Zuev AND Sergey foobar and any other blind GFDL advocate who is told Debian is BAD, because they want to drop FREE (it is written free on it, so it is certainly free) documentation from the GREAT GNU project ? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :'

Re: use of official logo in app splash screens

2003-09-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
this use. > > The open use logo would be great to use, and certain packages > already do, except it has a non-free license! The solution is not to stop using it, but rather to change its licensing. Sadly, it will probably require a GR. -- .''`. Josselin M

Re: stepping in between Debian and FSF [Was: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal]

2003-09-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
on the non-free removal side, and am sure I am not alone on this list. I hope the GR can be voted soon.) -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of fr

Re: GFDL

2003-09-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
ng interesting to say? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée.

Re: MPlayer DFSG compatibility status

2003-10-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
th mplayer, the maintainer will have a hard time convincing the ftpmasters that his package is 100 % free software, and free of patent issues. You can call this discrimination, I will call this careful attention towards some people who already proved to be incompetent regarding leg

Re: MPlayer DFSG compatibility status

2003-10-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
tp://xine.sf.net/ says that xine decodes WMV. It does decode WMV8. As Gabucino mentioned, it can also decode WMV9 using the win32 DLL's, but distributing them is presumably illegal, so this is only a solution for those who have a copy of some Windows version on thei

Unicode data licensing and gucharmap

2003-11-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
the information". So the question is, does this licensing allow for shipping the generated files under any license? Here, the GPL. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `-

Re: Source only opensource licence.

2003-12-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
bits, you might want to license the *nix version under the GPL, and the windows version under a qmail-like license. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- T

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
doesn't restrict anything you are describing, as long as the source is available alongside. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: Bug#216667: Freetype patent issues

2004-01-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
y default, but you have the choice. As for legal issues, I fail to see why we should drop something for a patent that is not actively enforced, especially when it is not known whether it is actually enforceable. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' :

Re: If DFSG apply to non-software, is GPL*L* incompatible with DFSG?

2004-02-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
are -- has a descision been made on > this? -- this would I think effectively stop Debian from distributing > any GPLed work on a CD which conforms to the DFSG. Oh dear. Poor, poor horses. Even dead, they are never left alone. -- .''`. Josse

Re: The GPL license document "COPYING" is not DFSG-free

2004-03-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
ering won't stop. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée.

Re: Bug#325653: Please check draft font license for StixFonts - is it suitably free?

2005-08-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
added to the Fonts, so long as the base set of glyphs is not modified or removed. Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: Bug#325653: Please check draft font license for StixFonts - is it suitably free?

2005-08-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
gt; one of the following: > a. We checked the draft license and if it stays as is, the fonts are properly > free. > b. We checked the draft license and it's not free, but if you change this to > that, it's properly free. This is exactly why I added debian-legal as a CC, but

Re: Bug#325653: Please check draft font license for StixFonts - is it suitably free?

2005-08-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" address. I need to > learn more on this bugs system. > I send this e-mail in personal, not to screw again the headers. Please, keep the discussion on the debian-legal mailing list (which has nothing to do with the bug tracking syste

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
of venue > clauses either, but they should try to modify the DFSG then. Could you explain why DFSG#5 couldn't be invoked in this case? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 09 septembre 2005 à 00:41 +0200, Marco d'Itri a écrit : > On Sep 09, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > There is nothing wrong with this, and I'm not a fan of choice of venue > > > clauses either, but they should try to modify

Re: Linux Documentation Project License (LDPL) v2.0

2005-09-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
rmat the derivative work's author chose to write and modify > the work OR in any format that could demonstrably be translated back > and forth to one of those formats without loss of information." This wording is even worse than "source format", IMHO. -- .''

Re: Is "VIGRA Artistic License" licence free and GPL-compatible ?

2005-09-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
27;t free, as you can't sell the software. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: Is "VIGRA Artistic License" licence free and GPL-compatible ?

2005-09-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PR

Re: Finjan NG5000 Web Proxy

2005-11-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
there isn't a written offer to get this source, this is a violation of the GPL. Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: contrib or main?

2005-12-07 Thread Josselin Mouette
; already have enough stuff in the archive with no point at all; their > mere existence is sufficient) Shouldn't packages that require something outside the archive, be it free or not, be in contrib? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EM

Re: pymedia DFSG compliant ?

2005-12-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Lame and libfaad2 are patent-encumbered and cannot be shipped. Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

gnome-vfs daemon, GPL and LGPL

2006-02-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
think this makes the dependent applications become subject to the GPL? Is a non-GPL-compatible application making use of gnome-vfs violating the license? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PRO

[Fwd: Re: gnome-themes and licensing]

2006-04-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Some artists unhappy with the wording of the (L)GPL are looking for free art licenses, with or without copyleft. What would your recommendations for such licenses be? The BSD or Artistic licenses look fine for the latter case, but how about the former? -- .''`. Jossel

Re: Free Art License [was: Re: [Fwd: Re: gnome-themes and licensing]]

2006-04-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 28 avril 2006 à 10:33 +1000, Andrew Donnellan a écrit : > Section 8 - French law - seems to make it non-free by DFSG standards. We've never considered choice of law as non-free. Such clauses are considered moot in most juridictions anyway. -- .''`.

Re: MPEG-4 patent license issues - libfaad* and libx264* and other codecs.

2006-04-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
dn't have anything to do with regard to patents. We should entirely ignore them unless directly threatened, and such issues that depend so much on the country should be up to the end-user to deal with. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :'

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
o become a project leader. This was obviously wrong. You haven't changed a bit, and such attitude may be a standard for a part of the ftp-master team, but it is not responsible behavior from the DPL. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
AFAICT. But this would have meant transparency and public discussion, respecting the social contract, and so on. All these secondary issues AJ doesn't want to deal with. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
actions from Sun? I don't feel like thanking anyone for that. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
power to do that. By the way, they also have the power to accept GNOME 2.14 in main. Don't you think that would have been more productive than accepting the Sun JVM? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
ions with companies like Sun can indeed benefit the project. Involving the whole project by force doesn't. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of fre

[OT] Re: Sun responds to questions on the DLJ

2006-05-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
ocial organization" that happens to produce very interesting > technical works. I find it very sad that people can get this impression after coming to Debconf. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
is is going to happen. > How can someone force the inclusion when he's ultimately the one which > decides if the software can go in or not? Please stop playing with words. If you don't want to discuss about this matter, just don't do it. -- .''`. Jos

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
can't name it otherwise after seeing their behavior IRL) is treating other developers as second-class contributors who should just do as they say. Re-read the constitution. By several aspects, Debian *is* a democracy. Some developers are ignoring it, but this is something that should

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
GNOME 2.14 because packages are stuck in NEW. They are generally considering the rest of developers like a boss with his employees. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
Oaxtepec have learnt that Java thing by reading the mailing lists. This is even more frustrating when the people who took this decision are a few meters away. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL

Re: [OT] Re: Sun responds to questions on the DLJ

2006-05-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
ffmpeg. I > appreciated your help with that technical question. I would > really appreciate your help with this more profound question > of what is the essence of Debian? The essence of Debian should be free software and technical excellence. I am afraid this is no more a priority

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
al list. Despite all of that, he's written a pretty good summary of the situation. You can add all personal attacks you want, that won't change. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAI

Re: Sun responds to questions on the DLJ

2006-06-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
users who make mailing lists live? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

Re: DFSG-freeness of the "CID Font Code Public Licence"

2006-06-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
torneys fees and expenses. > > Choice of venue, which is non-free. I still think choice of venue is, at best, unenforceable outside the US. Not everyone here find such clauses to be non-free. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
in development is irrelevant, you might want to > give some thought to the question of why a non-developer making demands of > anyone might be seen as doubly-inappropriate. How about stopping the discussions about who is a developer or not, who has the right to discuss or not,

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
only one thing we got to know: your > opinion, which is, basicly, "GPL or nothing". No need to go on trolling > around... everyone has got your point. If you haven't followed the discussions, you probably don't have to tell the whole world about it. -- .''`.

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
the fact it has been expressed by non-developers. > We are not through with this issue, and it will be solved in the near > future. What makes you believe this "will be solved in the near future"? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\

Re: Sun responds to questions on the DLJ

2006-06-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 05 juin 2006 à 19:51 +1000, Anthony Towns a écrit : > On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 12:58:45PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le mercredi 31 mai 2006 ? 15:01 +1000, Anthony Towns a ?crit : > > > Please note that Walter does not speak for the Debian project, and is not

Re: DFSG-freeness of the "CID Font Code Public Licence"

2006-06-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
gt; Choice of venue, which is non-free. > > > I still think choice of venue is, at best, unenforceable outside the US. > > Why do you think so? Maybe I don't want to lose time to explain it to people who say: > > Not everyone here find such clauses to be non-free. > &

Re: DFSG-freeness of the "CID Font Code Public Licence"

2006-06-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
ns that I cannot accept to be bound by this > license. This is because you are misinterpreting it. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: DFSG-freeness of the "CID Font Code Public Licence"

2006-06-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
ntal features of Free > Software. This indeed makes a lot of sense. Not only does the license ask to respect the law, it is terminated when you violate any kind of law or regulation. I stand corrected. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Sun clarifies intent of the DLJ

2006-06-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
cense itself. Thanks for this update, especially the preamble one. I think this addresses most if not all of the concerns regarding distributability. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

2006-06-07 Thread Josselin Mouette
d SPI's > attorney as to the validity of your concerns, or having contacted me as > DPL or the archive administrators privately first, either. Well, when the DPL is ignoring the developers' opinions, why would the SPI president care of the SPI members' op

Re: Non-DD's in debian-legal

2006-06-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
you need to be a DD to spot a problem with a license? No. Fortunately, most DDs can, unlike you, accept that this is a real problem even if the person spotting it is not a Chosen One. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'

Re: Open CASCADE Technology Public License

2006-06-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
here to "retaliate" against false claims, so this is reasonable. I don't know about corner cases, though. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

Re: Please move DAVDSI thread to public lists

2006-07-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 28 juillet 2006 à 23:36 +0200, Pierre Habouzit a écrit : > Le ven 28 juillet 2006 23:26, Josselin Mouette a écrit : > > Le vendredi 28 juillet 2006 à 22:40 +0200, Pierre Habouzit a écrit : > > > > It would be interesting to start a formal enquiry if this applies

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
is country. Replacing the text by a 'this software cannot return "schily" because it would infringe on Jörg Schilling's trademark' notice - or no notice at all - would seem like a fine solution. After all, it isn't allowed to display "(c) Microsoft corp." in

Re: [Debburn-devel] License of cdrkit - GPLv2 + additional restrictions

2006-09-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
I think the problem is more about GPL-compatibility than about DFSG-freeness. DFSG #4 already allows licenses forbidding re-use of the name or version number, and this isn't much a different case here. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: Bug#389464: gnome-themes-extras: non-free Firefox icon included

2006-09-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
. The only issue here is a trademark one, but as the icon is used to reference firefox itself, I'd have guessed it is allowed. I'm CCing debian-legal, as this has been discussed to death and I guess someone will have more clues than myself. -- .''`. Jossel

Re: libbtctl: two questions regarding use of LGPL and GPL in source files

2006-09-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
mix of GPL and LGPL, and practically speaking it has the effects of the GPL. This is of course perfectly free. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

Re: Bug#389464: gnome-themes-extras: non-free Firefox icon included

2006-09-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
rsion of the logo > done with adobe illustrator, which is not under a free license, and if > the logo in gnome-themes-extra appears to be based on this logo, and > saved with sodipodi, there is a problem. Where can I download it? I'll check if it is the same. -- .'

Re: Bug#389464: gnome-themes-extras: non-free Firefox icon included

2006-09-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 28 septembre 2006 à 15:37 +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit : > Le jeudi 28 septembre 2006 à 15:02 +0200, Mike Hommey a écrit : > > > I think I agree with that. It's not subject to the firefox copyright, > > > as far as I know, and it's an honest use of the t

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