Re: http://forums.debian.net in beta

On 2004-10-19 16:47:58 +0100 Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] just as with all content on debianHELP, all can be made part of free software iff the author agrees (and (dual or not)-licenses the content under a DFSG-free license). Last I saw, there was no way to do this o

Re: http://forums.debian.net in beta

martin f krafft writes: > I fail to see any copyright notice on the list pages mentioning that > there are copyrights on the messages, no by whom they are held. For what > it's worth, this puts all traffic of the Debian mailing lists into the > public domain. > Please correct me if I am wrong. Yo

Re: http://forums.debian.net in beta

also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.19.1757 +0200]: > I fail to see any copyright notice on the list pages mentioning that > there are copyrights on the messages, no by whom they are held. For > what it's worth, this puts all traffic of the Debian mailing lists > into the publi

Re: http://forums.debian.net in beta

also sprach Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.19.1747 +0200]: > As I mailed in my reply to the debianHELP admin, nothing posted to > any debian-mailinglist is by default elegible for inclusion in > free software either, but just as with all content on debianHELP, > all can be made

Re: http://forums.debian.net in beta

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 10:40:34PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > Avoid debianHELP for now. It's too heavy on the militant and too lax > on the FREE. Nothing submitted to the site is free software or can > form part of free software. So much for "we're strong believers in the > concept of free software"

Re: http://forums.debian.net in beta

First, apologies for the delay in replying. On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 04:08:19PM -0400, Intense Red wrote: >Secondly, Jeroen mentioned: > > The legality of this is doubtful, but the claim is made, > > and I'm not very comfortable with it. > >Why would the legality of this be doubtful

Re: http://forums.debian.net in beta

On 2004-09-14 21:08:19 +0100 Intense Red <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: debianHELP has been around since 2Q/3Q 2000. The decision was made at that time to put all content of the site under the GFDL. This is explained in the Site FAQ

Re: http://forums.debian.net in beta

A debianHELP user just posted a note about this thread (I'm not normally a subscriber of debian-project) and after reading it, I wanted to correct a couple of points. First, the topic of the GFDL license that the debianHELP site uses has been brought up in the past. Today I replied to th

Re: http://forums.debian.net in beta

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 03:25:22PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > I'll be mailing around a bit to seek input from other Debian-related > forums, since I still feel there is an itch to scratch, but it's > indeed much better to help and/or merge existing efforts. FWIW, debianplaza.net, with a

Re: http://forums.debian.net in beta

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 11:55:41AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-09-09 12:47]: > > multiple webforums out there for Debian, of varying popularity. AFAICS, > > the debianHELP one[1] is the most popular, being started about two years > ... > > foru

Re: http://forums.debian.net in beta

* Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-09-09 13:51]: > cant we point forum.debian.org at debianhelp? it would not need > to be in any way "trusted" as far as security is concerned. Giving it a .debian.org name means endorsing it and I'm not sure we want to do that. In the specific case of d

Re: http://forums.debian.net in beta

* Martin Michlmayr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040909 12:56]: > * Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-09-09 12:47]: > > multiple webforums out there for Debian, of varying popularity. AFAICS, > > the debianHELP one[1] is the most popular, being started about two years > ... > > forums.debian.n

Re: http://forums.debian.net in beta

* Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-09-09 12:47]: > multiple webforums out there for Debian, of varying popularity. AFAICS, > the debianHELP one[1] is the most popular, being started about two years ... > forums.debian.net is currently nearly-empty, it is yet to gain momentum. Well,

Re: http://forums.debian.net in beta

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 03:02:54AM +0100, Moray Allan wrote: > On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 03:00 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > Since quite some people like webforums for discussion and support, and > > also a certain other GNU/Linux distribution has quite succesful > > webforums, I decided to t

Re: http://forums.debian.net in beta

On Thursday 09 September 2004 04.02, Moray Allan wrote: > On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 03:00 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > [...] I decided to try providing a webforum for the Debian > > community too. > > How does this relate/compare to existing Debian web forums such as those > on the debianHEL

Re: http://forums.debian.net in beta

On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 03:00 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > Hi all, > > Since quite some people like webforums for discussion and support, and > also a certain other GNU/Linux distribution has quite succesful > webforums, I decided to try providing a webforum for the Debian > community too.

Re: http://forums.debian.net in beta

On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 03:00 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > Since quite some people like webforums for discussion and support, and > also a certain other GNU/Linux distribution has quite succesful > webforums, I decided to try providing a webforum for the Debian > community too. How does th

http://forums.debian.net in beta

Hi all, Since quite some people like webforums for discussion and support, and also a certain other GNU/Linux distribution has quite succesful webforums, I decided to try providing a webforum for the Debian community too. So, here it is, and lets see whether (part of) the Debian user community al