[repost] Re: Draft position statement of AGNULA on ALSA firmware

2004-06-15 Thread Alessandro Rubini - FSFE
[sorry, I messed the headers in the previous message, so I repost after cancelling the pending messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and linux-audio-dev] [after exchanging a few personal messages with Andrea, we decided I should post here, although I already raised my points in the discussion that led to

Re: Draft position statement of AGNULA on ALSA firmware

2004-06-15 Thread Alessandro Rubini - FSFE
[after exchanging a few personal messages with Andrea, we decided I should post here, although I already raised my points in the discussion that led to this draft. Now I notice a "reply-to" set to users@ in the original message, so I might have lost most discussion. I keep all the Cc: list as Andr

Re: [a-users] Re: Draft position statement of AGNULA on ALSA firmware

2004-06-14 Thread Georg C. F. Greve
|| On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:09:44 +0200 || Andrea Glorioso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ag> What does `endorsement' precisely mean, in this context? Public support. Regards, Georg -- Georg C. F. Greve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software Foundation Europe

Re: [a-users] Re: Draft position statement of AGNULA on ALSA firmware

2004-06-14 Thread Andrea Glorioso
> "Georg" == Georg C F Greve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > People could conclude from it that the FSFE somehow forced the > AGNULA project into the "remaining free" stance and the > volunteers have no problem with it at the moment. > Alternative wording might be: > After

Re: Draft position statement of AGNULA on ALSA firmware

2004-06-14 Thread Georg C. F. Greve
Dear Andrea, I've been thinking about this a little more and think there is a fundamental problem with the reasoning by denominating firmware as software and making an exception for it. Making such an exception would not only violate the AGNULA trademark license, it would also open the door to al

Re: Draft position statement of AGNULA on ALSA firmware

2004-06-12 Thread Georg C. F. Greve
|| On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 20:08:36 +0200 || Andrea Glorioso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ag> [...] ag> After the end of the funded lifetime, AGNULA has become a ag> (mostly) volunteer project; however, FSFE has registered the ag> "AGNULA" trademark and allows it to be used only by projects ag>

Draft position statement of AGNULA on ALSA firmware

2004-06-11 Thread Andrea Glorioso
Dear all, after a very busy period I finally managed to find the needed time and concentration to write the first darft of AGNULA position on distributing ALSA firmware. To make a long story short, the final position I'm proposing is that AGNULA *should* distribute such firmware, but