Re: Google contacting (harassing?) new DDs

2013-12-12 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, 2013/12/10 Enrico Zini : > it looks like as soon as one becomes DD, an email arrives from Google > recruiters. > I am toying with the idea of contacting companies with aggressive > recruiting policies like Google asking them to please leave us in peace, > and offering instead to maintain a w

Aw: Re: Google contacting (harassing?) new DDs

2013-12-12 Thread Steffen Möller
> 2013/12/10 Enrico Zini : > > > it looks like as soon as one becomes DD, an email arrives from Google > > recruiters. > > > I am toying with the idea of contacting companies with aggressive > > recruiting policies like Google asking them to please leave us in peace, > > and offering instead to m

Re: Google contacting (harassing?) new DDs

2013-12-12 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Tiago Bortoletto Vaz dijo [Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:19:32AM -0500]: > Actually they have tried many times even before I became DD. I know > other non-DD maintainers who have been bothered by them too. I don't see > a general solution for this, since some may like it. In my case I've > told all recru

Copyright arrangements for a web project

2013-12-12 Thread Ian Jackson
(This is a bit off-topic for the Debian list; I hope people won't mind me asking opinions here though.) I'm being asked for advice on encouraging contributions by the people behind a couple of "community-ish" websites which I use regularly. There's a lot of work to be done to improve the attractiv

Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project

2013-12-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 12/12/2013 06:44 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: (This is a bit off-topic for the Debian list; I hope people won't mind me asking opinions here though.) I'm being asked for advice on encouraging contributions by the people behind a couple of "community-ish" websites which I use regularly. There's a

Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project

2013-12-12 Thread Eitan Adler
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > * It would clearly be sensible to appoint a licence steward in the > GPLv3 sense. If the current project leadership lack free software > credibility, could SPI serve as licence steward ? On this I can not comment. > What instructions/d

Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project

2013-12-12 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 02:44:19PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > (This is a bit off-topic for the Debian list; I hope people won't mind > me asking opinions here though.) > > I'm being asked for advice on encouraging contributions by the people > behind a couple of "community-ish" websites which I u

Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project

2013-12-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Joshua D. Drake writes ("Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project"): > On 12/12/2013 06:44 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > > * It would clearly be sensible to appoint a licence steward in the > >GPLv3 sense. If the current project leadership lack free software > >credibility, could SPI serve

Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project

2013-12-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Eitan Adler writes ("Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project"): > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Ian Jackson > wrote: > > * Personally I'm an AGPLv3 proponent. The system ought to be suitable > > for AGPLv3 provided that its submodules are AGPLv3-compatible (and > > if they aren't, the

Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project

2013-12-12 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 02:44:19PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > * Personally I'm an AGPLv3 proponent. The system ought to be suitable > for AGPLv3 provided that its submodules are AGPLv3-compatible (and > if they aren't, then we can probably write a licence exception). > (The main program I'm

Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project

2013-12-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Paul Tagliamonte writes ("Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project"): > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 02:44:19PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or > > modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as > > published by

Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project

2013-12-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Eitan Adler writes ("Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project"): > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Ian Jackson > wrote: > > Eitan Adler writes ("Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project"): > >> [AGPLv3] is the least-free license currently approved by the OSI. > > > > Just out of interest

Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project

2013-12-12 Thread Eitan Adler
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Eitan Adler writes ("Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project"): >> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Ian Jackson >> wrote: >> > * Personally I'm an AGPLv3 proponent. The system ought to be suitable >> > for AGPLv3 provided that its sub

Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project

2013-12-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Bill Allombert writes ("Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project"): > I am fine with the stated purpose of the AGPLv3, however I do not think the > actual implementation is compatible with free software. > > There have been no official clarification how the AGPLv3 is supposed > to work in a lo

Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project

2013-12-12 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 06:35:05PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Of course that only applies to future versions of the GNU GPL. It's > not possible to switch from AGPL to GPL (or the other way) with that > wording. Indeed, just a datapoint for what other projects do. I'd be fine to include in my De

Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project

2013-12-12 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 07:45:14PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Bill Allombert writes ("Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project"): > > I am fine with the stated purpose of the AGPLv3, however I do not think the > > actual implementation is compatible with free software. > > Perhaps I haven't l