Re: Proposal - Free the Debian Open Use logo

2003-10-05 Thread Simon Law
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 07:20:37PM -0700, Benj. Mako Hill wrote: > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 05:07:14PM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > > I'm not sure I'm interpreting you correctly. Are you suggesting > > that I suspend this proposal until a more definitive position

Re: Proposal - Free the Debian Open Use logo

2003-10-05 Thread Simon Law
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 06:54:55PM -0400, Eric Sharkey wrote: > > Well, that's a simplification. But Debian can modify the logo > > to refer to something else, say goldfish, while other people cannot. So > > the playing field isn't open, so it isn't DFSG-free. > > You are completely misrepre

Re: Proposal - Free the Debian Open Use logo

2003-10-05 Thread Simon Law
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 05:48:42PM -0400, Eric Sharkey wrote: > > [ You e-mailed me privately, so I'll keep it that way. But I'll remove > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to keep Manoj's INBOX smaller. ] > > You can quote/forward me anywhere if you like. devel-announce is supposed > to be very low traffic

Re: Discussion - Free the Debian Open Use logo

2003-10-05 Thread Simon Law
M-F-T set to debian-project. On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 06:23:40PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:35:14PM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > > The old Open Use logo was not DFSG-free, so we really shouldn't be > > shipping it in main. > > Where are we shippi

Re: Proposal - Free the Debian Open Use logo

2003-10-05 Thread Simon Law
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:25:18PM -0700, Benj. Mako Hill wrote: > Since there are already people working on this, I think that the most > constructive thing will be to follow up on the DPL's announcement in > regards to the trademark committee and to get involved in the efforts > already underway.

Re: A Debian Who is Who

2003-02-17 Thread Simon Law
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:39:29AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > The karma.pl script blindly follows ... where the maintainer itself leads. > It just picks the info off the Debian BTS and package db (I've forgotten the > details as I wrote this a long time ago). See the code itself -- Kitame mu

Re: Copying and distributing Debian

2002-08-13 Thread Simon Law
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 01:14:52PM +0100, Jonathan Amery wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > First, please do not say "piracy" since that does not convey the > >proper meaning. Due to historical artifacts, what you really mean is > >"copyright infringement" and not "looting

Re: Copying and distributing Debian

2002-08-13 Thread Simon Law
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 10:11:50PM -0400, Phil Beder wrote: > 3. Someone raise the point that recently, users of open source / > Free Software have the reputation of being software pirates, and that > this sort of open exchange at public meetings might look bad or be > counter productive to the