Re: Patent clauses in licenses

2004-10-12 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-09-23 11:46:35 +0100 Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I suspect there's consensus among the project that "freedom to abuse patent law" is not a freedom worth protecting. [...] Again, you reword not combining independent issues into some sort of protection. You seem to be avoid

Re: Debian Sarge does not have either version of apt-proxy

2004-10-12 Thread Chris Bell
On Mon 11 Oct, Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Chris Bell: > > > The earlier 1.3.x version may not be perfect, but it does work for > > me, and I have not found any other software that does the same job. > > AFAIK, apt-proxy 1.9 is only required if you have apt 0.6 somewhere on > your site. apt-pro

Re: Patent clauses in licenses

2004-10-12 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 02:12:16PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > By comparison, how does debian protect the freedom to vote against > software patent supporters in our legislatures? That's clearly an > issue affecting free software, but we don't take specific action to > protect it. We don't have to:

Reiser4 filesystem

2004-10-12 Thread Aldous Huxley
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Re: Reiser4 filesystem

2004-10-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Aldous Huxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-10-12 14:46]: > Is Debian planning on using this filesystem for it's > next stable release? We will ship a kernel-patch-2.6-reiser4 package with which you can easily build a kernel with reiser4 support. However, we won't provide reiser4 support in our sta