Re: Results of the Antiharassment Team Survey

2019-07-16 Thread Matthew Garrett
g any action. But if what you wrote *was* reasonably read as being harsh (even if your intention was not to communicate in that way), what would be the ideal end goal of mediation? Teaching you how to communicate more effectively seems like something that's outside the project's respon

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-12 Thread Matthew Garrett
matter. You shouldn't be deprived of the right to express your incorrect opinion, but there's no reason anyone should be obliged to give you space to do so - and there's no reason to prioritise your desire to voice your incorrect opinion over a recognition that that opinion

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
tandards, but it's not reasonable to hold them to superhuman standards. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 10:49:12AM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 2019-12-13 09:56, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > When someone explicitly says that they refuse to recognise part of your > > humanity it's natural to have an emotional reaction to that. It's > > reasonab

Re: are Debian mentors nuts? the DebConf scandal

2019-12-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
Just in case anyone's wondering - I checked with Mary-Anne Wolf (who I met at Libreplanet some years ago) and she didn't send this mail. Someone faked her identity. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org

Re: are Debian mentors nuts? the DebConf scandal

2019-12-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 04:59:27AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Just in case anyone's wondering - I checked with Mary-Anne Wolf (who I > met at Libreplanet some years ago) and she didn't send this mail. > Someone faked her identity. And on the offchance that the subtext h

Patent clauses in licenses

2004-09-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
ce, other than such Participant's Contributor Version, directly or indirectly infringes any patent, then any rights granted to You by such Participant under Sections 2.1(b) and 2.2(b) are revoked effective as of the date You first made, used, sold, distributed, or had made, Modifications made by that Participant." 2.1(b) and 2.2(b) grant you patent licenses. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Patent clauses in licenses

2004-09-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
ontrol of free software to large > corporations. Perhaps you should killfile less of the thread. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Patent clauses in licenses

2004-09-19 Thread Matthew Garrett
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2004-09-19 13:24:06 +0100 Matthew Garrett ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> who believe that licenses which terminate if you allege infringement >> of >> a software patent in that software should be free. Is there an

Re: Patent clauses in licenses

2004-09-19 Thread Matthew Garrett
safe. > > Why do you assume that company B's claims must have to do with the original > software, or even with software at all? I'd certainly feel that licenses that attempt to restrict non-software patent action ought to be non-free. I don't see any way that a licen

Re: Patent clauses in licenses

2004-09-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 03:07:28PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> The GPL rejects users who want to distribute binaries without source. >> The MPL rejects users who want to sue the licensor for infringement of >> patents con

Re: Patent clauses in licenses

2004-09-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
ware patents. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Consumer boycott of your company

2004-11-16 Thread Matthew Garrett
n in any way. I assume he means that his complaints to ccai are being bounced, rather than that he's rejecting mail. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Consumer boycott of your company

2004-11-16 Thread Matthew Garrett
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Garrett writes: >> It's on www.ccai.com. > > Perhaps somewhere on the site, but I don't see it on the main page. I > suppose he must have gone through the sites and made a list of "companies" > he t

Re: License of old GNU Emacs manual

2005-01-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
go into non-free, > since the terms governing its use are also not DFSG compliant, who are > we really trying to kid? I think that that's an argument for the logo being under the wrong license (and hence us having fucked up in the past) rather than the DFSG being wrong. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Free Documentation Guidelines was: License of old GNU Emacs manual

2005-01-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
hanges in those freedoms. Personally, I'm inclined to believe that free documentation should have all the freedoms that we think should be provided by free software. Do you believe it needs more freedoms? Fewer freedoms? A slightly different set of freedoms? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Free Documentation Guidelines was: License of old GNU Emacs manual

2005-01-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
ause the social contract no longer includes the word "software" in point 1. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Free Documentation Guidelines was: License of old GNU Emacs manual

2005-01-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
ent as to why documentation needs different freedoms to executable code. The existence of this thread is a good opportunity to try to find some. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Free Documentation Guidelines

2005-01-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
tware was removed, but never mind. > We only talk about software in our social contract. There's no official > statement that I know of that defines software to be that. We don't actually talk about software at all in our social contract. We did do until April, though. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: documentation x executable code

2005-01-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
meet all of these? If so, why do you believe that these freedoms are less useful for documentation than executables? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What the social contract actually says

2005-01-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
nd put online afterwards, of course). -private is not always used appropriately. This is irritating, but it's not a breach of the social contract in any way whatsoever. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: documentation x executable code

2005-01-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 04 Jan 2005, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> If so, why do you believe that these freedoms are less useful for >> documentation than executables? > > I always go back to the technical standards when asked tha

Re: License of old GNU Emacs manual

2005-01-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
are > doing is compatible with or contradictory to our aims or not. We can provide the logo under a free copyright license but fairly strict trademark license. A restrictive copyright license prevents legitimate modifications as well, which isn't what we want. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem

2005-01-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
alent to trying to ship an entirely free distribution in 1985 - we have some free components, but there's no free versions of their dependencies. Until we've actually made a start on removing that dependency, I think it's unreasonable to punish our users over it. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem

2005-01-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
mmends: relationship on the firmware-providing packages). That doesn't quite solve the problem of drivers outside the main kernel tree. This is the case for a large amount of current wireless hardware, irritatingly. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem

2005-01-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Garrett wrote: >> In the firmware case, the choice is rather different. At present, the >> choice is not between free firmware or non-free firmware. The choice is >> between non-free firmware on disk or non-free firmware in

Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem

2005-01-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 02:36:03AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> In the firmware case, the choice is rather different. At present, the >> choice is not between free firmware or non-free firmware. The choice is >> between n

Re: Screenshots

2005-07-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
you choose a desktop install, the default environment on first boot is Gnome. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Screenshots

2005-07-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-05 07:36]: >> If you choose a desktop install, the default environment on first boot=20 >> is Gnome. > > Yes but is this the intention of debian to identify itself > wit

Re: "Why" Debian Core Consortium ? Why not UserLinux? Why not Debian?

2005-08-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
a technical decision that is incompatible with business decisions made by members of the DCC, will the DCC members remain compatible with Debian even if it means losing out in certain markets? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pledge To Killfile Andrew Suffield

2005-08-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
haps you should speak to more users? Andrew certainly has a reputation outside the developers, and it's not a good one. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pledge To Killfile Andrew Suffield

2005-08-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> There comes a point where the negative aspects of someone's >> contributions grossly outweigh the positive ones. Andrew contributes > > Oh? As far as I can se

Re: "Why" Debian Core Consortium ? Why not UserLinux? Why not Debian?

2005-08-12 Thread Matthew Garrett
e both official subprojects), I haven't seen any of the other distributions claim that Debian has been in the loop when the vast majority of the developers, well, haven't. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "Debian" Core Consortium

2005-08-12 Thread Matthew Garrett
derivative rather than part of the main project? Alternatively, are there any plans to become an official Debian subproject? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "Debian" Core Consortium

2005-08-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
(http://madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=4921 has an interview with Bruce Perens, where he repeatedly uses the name "Debian Common Core" rather than DCC. If the idea is that DCC stands for "Debian Common Core" in the same way that NT stands for "New Technology", i

Re: "Why" Debian Common Core Alliance? Why not Debian?

2005-08-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
t. You said that DCC would become part of Debian. That's Debian's decision, not yours. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "Why" Debian Common Core Alliance? Why not Debian?

2005-08-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 25. August 2005 15:44 schrieb Matthew Garrett: >> You said that DCC would become part of Debian. That's Debian's decision, >> not yours. > > No, I said "shall" which, to the best of my

Re: [Spi-trademark] Re: What the DFSG really says about trademarks

2005-08-26 Thread Matthew Garrett
ebianshop.com is run by the same people that keep inviting Debian to turn up at UK conferences and, uh, sell t-shirts and stuff. They don't seem terribly deterred) -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What the DFSG really says about trademarks

2005-08-29 Thread Matthew Garrett
in meetings. It's an entirely reasonable suggestion that Debian-UK be required to follow the DPL's requests regarding disbursement. If you'd ever made it, I doubt anyone would have objected. (I do apologise for repeatedly using the word "you" here, despite it being a pu

Re: What the DFSG really says about trademarks

2005-08-30 Thread Matthew Garrett
development by > other businesses). That would actually be "Representing Debian at the Gnome advisory board meetings", as described in http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2004/12/msg00276.html . The rest of your responses show the same sort of level of misunderstanding of what'

Re: Debian UK (was Re: What the DFSG really says about trademarks)

2005-09-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
drink for the volunteers afterwards, yes. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian UK (was Re: What the DFSG really says about trademarks)

2005-09-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
m pretty sure that's it right there. And getting people's names > wrong when replying to email is really quite pitiful... It's his name. It may not be what he prefers to be called, but that's an entirely separate issue. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To

Re: Debian UK

2005-09-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
complaining) c) It's Just Wrong (which is a bit difficult to argue against) But, as is so often the case, it's hard to know why the current situation has arisen. I guess the real question that we should be dealing with is: Is it inappropriate for an organisation that is closely linked to Deb

Re: Debian UK

2005-09-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
;t first get Debian/SPI to agree with them. If > they had then we wouldn't be having this discussion. The current situation of "Why Debian doesn't sell CDs". I've no idea why that's the way it is. What historical process led to this situation? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian UK

2005-09-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
e the people that provide us with CDs. It's /possible/ that in the absence of Debian selling CDs, other companies would have sprung up to do so - but that's fairly extreme handwaving. No evidence has ever been presented that this situation discourages anyone. -- Matthew Garrett | [EM

Re: Debian UK

2005-09-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
Merle Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> When it comes to the technical side of things, policy follows practice. > > So why flout previous policy? Presumably there's some past > practice which caused it, even if

Re: Debian UK

2005-09-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
Modesto Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> < Manoj> I have seen debian booths selling stuff at every conference >> since '97 >> >> Because policy hasn't matched practice for a very long

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scripsit Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> But that's already possible. The majority (all?) of licenses that we >> ship don't prevent me from being sued arbitrarily. > > The majority (all!) of lice

DPL team

2005-09-21 Thread Matthew Garrett
re made known to the project as a whole. It'd potentially make it easier to ensure that they happen. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Complaint about #debian operator

2005-12-12 Thread Matthew Garrett
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ubuntu tries so hard to be Debian without actually contributing back to=20 > Debian. Let them compare on their own channel. The above might variously be described as "not entirely accurate", "wrong" or even "com

Re: Reducing my involvement in Debian

2006-01-16 Thread Matthew Garrett
ist admins) may be overruled by a simple majority in a GR. I'm not quite sure how that could be considered "above the law". -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mac project?

2006-06-01 Thread Matthew Garrett
working on those with Colin Watson. There's also the problem that the stock kernel (Debian and upstream) doesn't yet support the hardware, but that should be rectified soon. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Call for a new DPL mediation ... This will be the only thread i will reply to in the next time about this issue.

2006-06-21 Thread Matthew Garrett
documented in section 4.1 of the constitution) -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Call for a new DPL mediation ... This will be the only thread i will reply to in the next time about this issue.

2006-06-21 Thread Matthew Garrett
be altered via the constitution. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Call for a new DPL mediation ... This will be the only thread i will reply to in the next time about this issue.

2006-06-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
ion doesn't appear to allow it? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why Ubuntu is different, was: Minutes of an Ubuntu-Debian discussion that happened at Debconf

2006-06-29 Thread Matthew Garrett
an derivatives have been binary incompatible with Debian itself. Ubuntu is hardly different from other derivatives in this respect. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-29 Thread Matthew Garrett
Anthony Towns wrote: > What if we introduced the concept of "area" maintenance? Like saying > "Matthew Garrett is part of our hardware support team, so can thus NMU > any package that needs changes to support that release goal." with the > proviso that a bug gets

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-29 Thread Matthew Garrett
s configured to automatically use that device node. In general, the integration work stems from packages that provide hardware support plus packages that depend on that hardware. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: Proposal: The DFSG do not require source code for data, including firmware

2006-08-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
;s shipped by Debian", but we could also define it as "A system consisting of a computer and a Debian installation" or "Whatever is provided by Debian and run on the host processor". -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposal: The DFSG do not require source code for data, including firmware

2006-08-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
vide an incentive to implement a free version. But right now, I don't see any evidence that refusing to ship non-free firmware will do anything other than cost us users without providing any extra freedom. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposal: The DFSG do not require source code for data, including firmware

2006-08-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
ble > interface and the kernel had a bochs included by default to run them? No. There's plenty of hardware with free drivers, and I think that us refusing to provide the non-free ones does make a difference. I run no non-free drivers on any of my hardware. At the point where it'

Re: Proposal: The DFSG do not require source code for data, including firmware

2006-08-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
Bernhard R. Link <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060823 17:31]: >> If you can find a single hard drive on the market that doesn't contain >> some sort of firmware, I'll be greatly impressed. Or, for that matter, a &

Re: Proposal: The DFSG do not require source code for data, including firmware

2006-08-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
rmware-type material (I think I even proposed doing this some time ago), and I think there'd be an argument for including it on the CDs by default. At the very least, it'd make it possible for people to make a choice that they feel non-free firmware is acceptable without going so far

Re: Debian Maintainers

2007-05-31 Thread Matthew Garrett
such a need for the DM concept. I'd like to be able to maintain my packages without having to worry about the rest of Debian. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: please

2007-06-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
it is present in an EEPROM. Not a great argument. > > Except then it does not have to interface with the kernel ABI and > cause headaches for our kernel maintainers. Nor does loadable firmware. Are you confusing it with closed-source kernel code like in madwifi? -- Matthew Garrett

Re: please

2007-06-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
But I have to admit that i > didn't read the source since it works well on my card. The Atheros chipsets don't use firmware. The closed-source part of the madwifi driver is run in your kernel, on the host CPU. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: What do Open Source Projects need? - part 3

2007-06-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
y. Please don't try to insinuate otherwise. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem

2005-01-12 Thread Matthew Garrett
d, if our users don't need free firmware when it's in flash, why do they need it when it's on disk? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem

2005-01-16 Thread Matthew Garrett
kernel modules too. In many cases, the firmware may be provided by the hardware vendor in some form, so we can just use the existing media for install purposes. It's probably not reasonable to expect them to provide Debian installer modules as well, so in some cases we'd end up with twice as

Re: New policy for http://www.debian.org/consultants/

2005-01-16 Thread Matthew Garrett
Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We do regard licenses with advertising clauses as non-free, don't we? Nope. There's 4-clause BSD code in main. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: Taking a position on anti-patent licenses (was ' Re: Bug#289856: mdnsresponder: Wrong license')

2005-01-26 Thread Matthew Garrett
opyright license. Earlier discussion on -project seemed to suggest that people were more or less happy with the first, and less happy with the second. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New Front Desk members

2005-01-30 Thread Matthew Garrett
. Use of singular they may or may not be a travesty, but it's not indicative of sexism. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New Front Desk members

2005-01-31 Thread Matthew Garrett
such as users and other developers It's fairly common usage in English, and it'll probably even be considered correct in a few years... -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits from the ftpmasters

2005-02-19 Thread Matthew Garrett
ation back and forth. Separating the people doing the job from the people providing updates removes the direct criticism flow. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits from the ftpmasters

2005-02-19 Thread Matthew Garrett
ters. Have ftpmasters discussed > this with this DPL? This is actually my fault. I should have something by the end of the day. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Roles and responsibilities of the FTPmaster team.

2005-02-19 Thread Matthew Garrett
t the archive contains the correct packages in the correct place. While much of this work is automated, it still requires a large amount of vigilance, as well as effort to update the tools as the needs of the project change. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Bits from the ftpmasters

2005-02-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
e > wanted, I have seen quite a few people who asked and got what was either > /dev/null, or an excellent imitation thereof. I interviewed one of the ftpmasters in person, and then had what I'd written checked over by one of the other people in that role and incorporated his suggestions. --

Debian release strategy

2005-03-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
any point in the near future, and that makes it significantly harder to concentrate on working towards that release. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian release strategy

2005-03-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
Hm. I meant to send this to -vote - sorry about that. Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Ruoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> * I had recently post a message to debian-project[1] suggesting that we >> could plan structural changes in Debian, I mea

Re: Debian release strategy

2005-03-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
x27;d also include stuff like (for Sarge): Debian Installer release Support for testing proposed updates Support for testing security builds and so on. The rc policy defines what needs to be done for general packages, but doesn't give much idea information about what needs to be done for t

Social pressure on mailing lists (Was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
anything other than an absolutely final resort. (m-f-t -project - this isn't a technical discussion) -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Social pressure on mailing lists (Was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
Sebastian Ley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Dienstag, 15. März 2005 22:37 schrieb Matthew Garrett: >> However, I /do/ think we need to be more willing to apply >> social pressure against people whose sole contribution to mailing lists >> is to disrupt them. > &g

Re: debian domains

2005-04-01 Thread Matthew Garrett
for advertising unrelated products. Now that we're aware of it, failing to take some form of action could potentially result in us losing the trademark. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian domains

2005-04-01 Thread Matthew Garrett
nd desist type message to the current holders before resorting to dispute resolution procedures - it generally looks better if you've tried to settle things quietly first. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian domains

2005-04-01 Thread Matthew Garrett
ted in a specific case, but that's a situation that worries me. Which part of "Get the people who hold the trademark to enforce it" sounds unreasonable? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian domains

2005-04-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
d our ducks in a row from a "trademark > license agreements with existing friendly entities" point of view. You guys > do whatever you think best. My recollection is that we're currently blocked on the trademark committee here. Has there been any progress in drafting a useful

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
ng about it. Complaining without actually *doing* anything doesn't help anyone. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian domains

2005-04-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Garrett wrote: >> Which part of "Get the people who hold the trademark to enforce it" >> sounds unreasonable? > > The bit that has tension with the holder's assertion that > "The Debian trademark

Re: thank you for your support

2005-04-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Stop the "Project Scud", the cabal is already enough! Regardless of my feelings about the Scud proposal, it was part of Branden's platform. He ought to stick to it. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSU

GFDL freedoms

2005-04-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
people happy in this respect. It's possible for the GFDL to achieve its goal without preventing this use case. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GFDL freedoms

2005-04-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
re because they found > that under some crack-smoking reading of the License text, it is > restraining their almighty freedom. Consensus and good will, this is > what it is about. Ok, let's just simplify this to the basic issue: I believe that for software to be free, it must be p

Re: GFDL freedoms

2005-04-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
and that > the answer to our issue can't be "black or white"? Oh, absolutely. There are all kinds of shades of grey - the problem with them is that we only have a black and white (free or non-free) way of dealing with them. At the end of the day, all the shades of grey have to be divided into those two catagories. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GFDL freedoms

2005-04-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
There's one other issue, though - I'm not sure if your section 4 covers GFDL stuff like cover texts. They're not secondary to the main purpose of the manual, but they are invariant. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Planet.debian.org content policy

2005-05-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
Is there one? Should there be? (Frankly, I'd be amazed if there's any set of conditions that would render Ian Murdock's posts unreasonable while allowing the stuff that's on my Livejournal.) -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Discussion of bug #311683, default kde install shows porn

2005-06-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
able to bring this discussion up on a public list rather than just the BTS. If people think the bug is important, we should hold the relase. If not, we shouldn't. (Personally, I think it's an indescribably stupid thing for KDE to override the default xscreensaver settings. They exist for a

Re: Discussion of bug #311683, default kde install shows porn

2005-06-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
RC issue for whatever reason we want to. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Discussion of bug #311683, default kde install shows porn

2005-06-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Garrett wrote: >> Mark, not everyone who criticises Debian is attempting to destroy us. > > Basic politeness like using someone's chosen name escapes Matthew > Garrett. He's also arguing against something he made up.

Re: Discussion of bug #311683, default kde install shows porn

2005-06-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
to do that, then I think we have other issues. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Discussion of bug #311683, default kde install shows porn

2005-06-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
than copyright and licences. slander or > whatever it is called. If you're worried, I'd recommend consulting a lawyer. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Discussion of bug #311683, default kde install shows porn

2005-06-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (Some stuff) I was going to say something here, but then I died of boredom. Sorry about that. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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