Re: GPL is not the only free licence, and FSF not the only holder

2000-12-03 Thread John Lines
the impression which many corporate people have (incorrectly) that RedHat own the licenses for all the software they sell. John Lines

GPL is not the only free licence, and FSF not the only holder

2000-12-03 Thread John Lines
) This would free up the FSF lawyers to look at more interesting questions, such as, if I am installing 20 servers with RedHat Linux, how many copies do I need to buy ? (Note that replies on RedHat licensing are off topic for Debian Policy, so mail solely on that direct to me only please) John Lines

Re: Preparing Debian for using capabilities: file ownership.

2000-09-24 Thread John Lines
ained one of the ones which could be leveraged to obtain all privileges. I used to regard the levels of privilege as being similar to the safety catch on a gun. It does not provide you with much protection if someone takes control of the gun away from you, but it will stop you shooting yourself in the foot. John Lines

Re: /usr/local policy

2000-03-01 Thread John Lines
he package, presumably with the correct owner and permissions without my having to do as much administrative work, but I can appreciate that other people may have different requirements. John Lines

Re: adding rationale commentary to the policy manual

2000-02-06 Thread John Lines
onsider, or - if they really have thought of a better way to do things - have the policy changed so that everyone else can benefit from their brilliance. John Lines

Re: [PROPOSED] Change package relations policy to remove referenc es to non-free from main

1999-12-01 Thread John Lines
> --force-legal to override. > > You could even get rid of non-free this way. Or am I being too ambitious > here ? Yes John Lines

Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate funct

1999-09-29 Thread John Lines
a convenient place to put a flag which says 'ask me (the user) before enabling any daemons' John Lines

Re: Configuration management, version 5

1998-08-03 Thread John Lines
ls of the OSI stack usually 'belong' to people who are more familiar with NT or Netware Directory services and the trend seems to be towards extending the directory services down the stack (with Directory Enabled Networking etc) rather than the other way round. (For example there is a Ma

Re: Conflicts between developers and policy

1998-04-29 Thread John Lines
meone else from having to go through the same process. John Lines -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]