Re: DFSG and GPL -- source retention

1998-12-06 Thread Raul Miller
> >This is ok if we shut down all any publically accessible mirrors which > >only offer binaries. Oliver Elphick wrote: > Mirror site owners/administrators are responsible for their own > policies. Surely Debian itself is responsible only for ...debian.org? I meant from the official mirrors

Re: DFSG and GPL -- source retention

1998-12-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
Raul Miller wrote: >Tyson Dowd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You are safe if you can download the source from the FTP site at the >> time of offering the binaries. Since this is always the case, there is >> no problem. > >This is ok if we shut down all any publically accessible mirrors

Re: [OT] "government"

1998-12-06 Thread Raul Miller
Scott McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not true. What's being set up is a system that fulfills its own > prophecy. People will cite rules and regulations now instead of > resolving things socially. But I can't suggest a better way to do it > either so... There's a real problem here that need

Re: [OT] "government"

1998-12-06 Thread Scott McDermott
Darren Benham on Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 08:33:13PM -0800: > > I just have an observation to make: you guys are getting > > increasingly *bureaucratized*. Like, massively so. I like all the > > [...] > > It's like auto insurance... most of the time you don't need it.. maybe > never need it. But wh

Re: DFSG and GPL -- source retention

1998-12-06 Thread Raul Miller
On 04-Dec-1998, Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think we're safe if we keep the sources available for three years > > after the binaries are available. Tyson Dowd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are safe if you can download the source from the FTP site at the > time of offering the b

Re: DFSG and GPL -- source retention

1998-12-06 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 04-Dec-1998, Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think we're safe if we keep the sources available for three years > after the binaries are available. You are safe if you can download the source from the FTP site at the time of offering the binaries. Since this is always the case, th

RE: [OT] "government"

1998-12-06 Thread Darren Benham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 06-Dec-98 Scott McDermott wrote: > I'm not a Debian developer, just a long time lurker. > > I just have an observation to make: you guys are getting increasingly > *bureaucratized*. Like, massively so. I like all the principles and > everything but I think

[OT] "government"

1998-12-06 Thread Scott McDermott
I'm not a Debian developer, just a long time lurker. I just have an observation to make: you guys are getting increasingly *bureaucratized*. Like, massively so. I like all the principles and everything but I think all this definition and concretism is just bloated procedure. Are all these adden