Re: Claiming the "debian" account on GitHub ?

2012-06-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:11:54AM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : > > So this is a case where good taste and forthright advocacy are in > conflict. I think Stefano is correct that good taste is the lesser > concern here, and that having the README refer directly to free services > for the job is the

Re: Claiming the "debian" account on GitHub ? (was: Re: Packaging on GitHub ?)

2012-06-14 Thread Clint Adams
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 09:31:39AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > I have not added links to their competitors, as I think that it would be > bad taste, but yes, I invite every developer to consider Free alternatives > such as Gitorious or Branchable. I find it in poor taste to self-censor due to b

Re: Claiming the "debian" account on GitHub ?

2012-06-14 Thread Ben Finney
"Thijs Kinkhorst" writes: > On Thu, June 14, 2012 16:56, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 09:31:39AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > >> I have not added links to their competitors, as I think that it > >> would be bad taste, but yes, I invite every developer to consider > >> F

Re: Claiming the "debian" account on GitHub ?

2012-06-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Yaroslav Halchenko writes: > BTW -- what would be the license for this creative endeavor? > (CC BY-SA 3.0?) ;) I recommend the GNU All-Permissive License for things like this. http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/License-Notices-for-Other-Files.html If I really don't want to make people

Re: Claiming the "debian" account on GitHub ? (was: Re: Packaging on GitHub ?)

2012-06-14 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
BTW -- what would be the license for this creative endeavor? (CC BY-SA 3.0?) ;) On Thu, 14 Jun 2012, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > I have just submitted a pull request in an attempt to make it more > factual while staying neutral and informative ;) Here was my take: > README > == > [Debian](

Re: Claiming the "debian" account on GitHub ? (was: Re: Packaging on GitHub ?)

2012-06-14 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
I have just submitted a pull request in an attempt to make it more factual while staying neutral and informative ;) Here was my take: README == [Debian](http:www.debian.org) packages, maintains and distributes some works that are developed using GitHub. This account was created to facilitat

Re: Claiming the "debian" account on GitHub ? (was: Re: Packaging on GitHub ?)

2012-06-14 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Thu, June 14, 2012 16:56, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 09:31:39AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >> I have not added links to their competitors, as I think that it would >> be bad taste, but yes, I invite every developer to consider Free >> alternatives such as Gitorious or

Re: Claiming the "debian" account on GitHub ? (was: Re: Packaging on GitHub ?)

2012-06-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 09:31:39AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > I have not added links to their competitors, as I think that it would > be bad taste, but yes, I invite every developer to consider Free > alternatives such as Gitorious or Branchable. To be blunt, I think that our advocacy for soft