Re: help

2012-02-07 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, sounds like your hard disks are dying (I'm not sure about this, though). You should really backup your data regularly, anyhow, it is too late now, but you should do so in future. If you really need your data, it seems to be a good choice to pay someone with experience in this area to rescue y

Re: MIT and Expat licenses; lice nses ‘similar to’ a BSD licens e (Re: [DEP-5] [patch] License table: more links and licenses.)

2010-08-14 Thread Carsten Hey
* Charles Plessy [2010-08-15 00:20 +0900]: > Le Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 01:26:45PM +0200, Carsten Hey a écrit : > > > > Shouldn't it be mentioned in the licenses description that the expat > > license sometimes wrongly is referred to as MIT license? > > I wonder if t

Re: [DEP-5] [patch] License table: more links and licenses.

2010-08-14 Thread Carsten Hey
* Charles Plessy [2010-08-14 16:58 +0900]: > After looking at http://spdx.org/licenses/, I realise that the very > existence of a license list in DEP-5 is in question (not in this thread). > However, since I had a version of the DEP with a more comprehensive use > of web links for licenses, I propo

Re: [DEP-5] [patch] Renaming the Format-Specification field to ‘Format’.

2010-08-14 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, thank you for addressing this old suggestions :) * Charles Plessy [2010-08-14 11:29 +0900]: > Renaming the Format-Specification field: > > ... > > Carsten Hey (and perhaps others) also questionned if the field should > be required and if it should contain an URL: > ht

Re: Problems with NM Front Desk

2010-07-06 Thread Carsten Hey
* Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo [2010-07-02 19:01 +0200]: > [4] Including not acknowledging NMUs (many of them FTBFS), not replying to > most (any?) bug reports, not replying when people asked to update the > software or orphan it if he was not interested anymore, not replying to my > (private) off

Re: Estadistical proyect.

2010-05-12 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, sorry for my late answer, I read this list only rarely. * angel [2010-04-21 10:58 +0200]: > In case Debian is interested in having someone work on a statistical > project of any nature (the project would be supervised by professors > of the Statistics and Operations Research department of the

Re: Differentiating BSD-style licenses (was: DEP5: Machine-readable debian/copyright (the paperwork))

2009-12-22 Thread Carsten Hey
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 01:22:47PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Here are reasons why I do not think that licenses inspired by the BSD license > can be efficiently classified by counting the number of clauses. > > First, the license of the Berkeley Software Distribution ("BSD") source code > copyr

Re: Differentiating BSD-style licenses (was: DEP5: Machine-readable debian/copyright (the paperwork))

2009-12-22 Thread Carsten Hey
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 09:57:05AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Carsten Hey writes: > > It's might not be obvious for all which BSD licenses are meant by "BSD" > > and "FreeBSD", thus I propose appending " (3-clause BSD)" and > > respectively

Re: DEP5: Machine-readable debian/copyright (the paperwork)

2009-12-22 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, a few remarks about DEP #5: "The Expat License" is rather unknown under this name, thus I propose adding a comment like this to its description: Expat The Expat License (often referred as MIT license, see comment in *Problematic Licenses*) It's might not be obvious for a

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-05 Thread Carsten Hey
> Steve Langasek wrote: > > Does that mean you don't think Ubuntu developers contribute fixes > > back to Debian today? As security, contributing fixes back to Debian is not a product nor a state, it's a process. We should all be interested in optimizing this process further. http://patches.ubun

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Carsten Hey
Why not freeze in June 2010 instead of December 2009 and then freeze again in December 2011*? Mark Shuttleworth seems (at least seemed) to be fine with delaying Ubuntu LTS by half a year to get Ubuntu and Debian in sync [1]: | The LTS will be either 10.04 or 10.10 - based on the conversation that

Re: Debian Project sponsoring

2009-04-28 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:14:48PM +0200, Kevin Schmitt wrote: > Does the Debian Project sponsor other projects for a return? no, Debian is not interested in such things, sorry. Regards Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: How to be authorized distributor

2009-03-21 Thread Carsten Hey
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 09:06:11PM -0300, Vonlist wrote: > I written to them so that I want to know that I need to be an > authorized distributor of Debian. My project is to facilitate the > operative system to those who cannot download it from Internet and to > need those who it with urgency. Act

Re: Debian website redesign proposal

2008-02-18 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi Nathan! > I would like to offer a redesign of Debian's website. I will use > WordPress to power the new site. Thanks for the offer! I discussed your proposal with some Debian developers. We came to the conclusion, that Wordpress is not the right tool for this task. This has many reasons, o