Moving discussions about DEP-5 details to another list. (Was Re: DEP-5 and public domain)

2010-08-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 04:27:09AM +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 10:31 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > Charles Plessy writes: > > > > > Le Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 02:05:42AM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : > > > > To my eye, ‘License: NO’ has exactly the wrong connotation (“the > >

Re: DEP-5 and public domain

2010-08-11 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Hutchings writes: > On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 10:31 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > I'm arguing that the keyword “no” is poorly chosen because it > > doesn't clearly connote what we want it to. > [...] > > I think the bikeshed should be pink. A fair cop. I offer the suggestion only because it's muc

Re: DEP-5 and public domain

2010-08-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 10:31 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Charles Plessy writes: > > > Le Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 02:05:42AM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : > > > To my eye, ‘License: NO’ has exactly the wrong connotation (“the > > > recipient has no copyright license to this work”). The obvious > > > reac

Re: DEP-5 and public domain

2010-08-11 Thread Ben Finney
Charles Plessy writes: > Le Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 02:05:42AM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : > > To my eye, ‘License: NO’ has exactly the wrong connotation (“the > > recipient has no copyright license to this work”). The obvious > > reaction to that would be “okay, then we can't have it in Debian”. >

Re: DEP-5 and public domain

2010-08-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 02:05:42AM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : > > To my eye, ‘License: NO’ has exactly the wrong connotation (“the > recipient has no copyright license to this work”). The obvious reaction > to that would be “okay, then we can't have it in Debian”. Hi Ben, there would still be n

Re: DEP-5 and public domain

2010-08-11 Thread Ben Finney
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes: > I agree, the files (but the documentation) don't seems copyrightable, > which is different as PD, so new keyword "NO"? To my eye, ‘License: NO’ has exactly the wrong connotation (“the recipient has no copyright license to this work”). The obvious reaction to that

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2010-08-11 Thread Neha Gundecha

Re: DEP-5 and public domain

2010-08-11 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 02.08.2010 23:27, Russ Allbery wrote: Very, very little software is actually truly public domain. US law, for instance, makes it essentially impossible to place something in the public domain via any mechanism other than dying and waiting 75 years (or whatever it is now). Not really. (just