Re: DEP5: non-DFSG repackaging documentation

2010-09-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 06:23:12PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> It seems like overkill to me, but I guess I don't really care. But if >> the source is only URLs, then for some of my packages I either need to >> omit it or duplicate Homep

Re: DEP5: non-DFSG repackaging documentation

2010-09-14 Thread Russ Allbery
l use the >> field name no matter what it's called, though. > I feel it is not, but if you judge this as nitpicking, I shall stop. Sorry, that probably came across poorly. I was referring to my own contribution as bikeshed painting, not to yours. I'm probably making too much of this

Re: DEP-5: clarify batching of copyrights, licenses in a single stanza

2010-10-28 Thread Russ Allbery
many, many other problems with our current practices. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: No general political content on Planet

2010-11-04 Thread Russ Allbery
. Meeting one's fellow developer in person also (at least for me) helped a lot in turning random political content I strongly disagree with from something that pissed me off into something that just makes me roll my eyes and remember the good conversation we had. :) -- Russ Allbery

Re: No general political content on Planet

2010-11-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney writes: > Russ Allbery writes: >> The little minus next to someone's name seems to deal with that >> reasonably well if one doesn't feel up to ignoring it. > I get no “little minus” next to anyone's name on the Planet Debian > syndication

Re: No general political content on Planet

2010-11-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney writes: > Russ Allbery writes: >> Anyway, presumably decent feed reader software either has or could have >> added to it a similar feature to suppress particular posts from the >> collective feed by various criteria. The authorship information is in >> th

Re: commercial spam on planet

2010-11-08 Thread Russ Allbery
d by how many people are endorsing it. But one of the points of Planet Debian is that it includes all of the project, in all of our disagreements.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@list

Re: commercial spam on planet

2010-11-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog writes: > On Mon, 08 Nov 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Where I personally draw the line is that I'm fairly comfortable with >> Debian-involved people advertising their own services on Planet Debian: >> their own companies, their own consulting services,

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-10 Thread Russ Allbery
und. They're culture-dependent, unlikely to be universal, and not very likely to change anyone's behavior. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Gilbert writes: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:56:18 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I respectfully disagree. Depending on the context and the situation, I >> may consider someone asking me to give them money to be intrusive and >> obnoxious, and I reserve the right to com

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > Michael Gilbert writes: >> On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:56:18 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >>> I respectfully disagree. Depending on the context and the situation, >>> I may consider someone asking me to give them money to be intrusive >>> an

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-11 Thread Russ Allbery
quite uncomfortable with hosting my web site, which as previously mentioned has some affiliate links to an on-line bookstore, on the Stanford network even though it was on my personal hardware, and felt much more comfortable about that once I moved my personal web site to my own VMs hosted elsewher

Re: commercial spam on planet

2010-11-11 Thread Russ Allbery
eople like and are interested in. I would have absolutely no concerns about such a thing on Planet, provided that the links were constructed such that they didn't become accidental web bugs. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Please draft a policy for planet.debian.org

2010-11-11 Thread Russ Allbery
ly do. I suspect a blacklist on the Planet Debian side could kill most of the bugs after looking over Page Info. I personally blocked four different sites and that got 95% of them. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-13 Thread Russ Allbery
volved with in Debian. Yeah, I think Source should be optional for native packages. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Lars Wirzenius writes: > On to, 2011-01-13 at 17:15 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Yeah, I think Source should be optional for native packages. > Would anyone oppose making such a change? Does Policy allow it? If > there's consensus for, and it's ok by Policy, then

Re: [DEP5] License field in the first paragraph ?

2011-01-17 Thread Russ Allbery
ifically requested this, since one of the purposes to which I want to put DEP-5 requires some way of specifying the collective copyright and license for a package as a whole, regardless of the individual licenses of some files. This is not the same thing as a Files: * block that's overridden by

Re: [DEP5] License field in the first paragraph ?

2011-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
ed under compatible terms. In that case, it's nice to be able to just specify a general package license and make it explicit that one is not claiming to have a comprehensive listing of all files with their copyright and license statements. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: [DEP5] License field in the first paragraph ?

2011-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:23:44AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> But there are two other main reasons why I want an overall package >> license: >> * It's common to release GPL'd software that includes some >> 2-clause-BSD-li

Re: [DEP5] License field in the first paragraph ?

2011-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:32:38AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Jonas Smedegaard writes: >>> I.e. regarding my example, even if DEP5 should be corrected to also >>> mention License: in header paragraph, I should _still_ below that >>

Re: DEP5: Public domain works

2011-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
-domain keyword for things that aren't actually in the public domain but just have a license saying "this is in the public domain" or "you can treat this as if it's in the public domain," since in many countries that use Debian those works are *not* in the public do

Re: DEP5: Public domain works

2011-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
igh for upstream statements about licensing. It's much less likely that upstream will be wrong when they declare the license to be an MIT or 2-clause BSD license. But misunderstanding of public domain is widespread. Hell, I have stuff of my own that's distributed under a license that sa

Re: Question regarding Debian and CGL 5.0

2011-04-27 Thread Russ Allbery
? Often this sort of thing ends up being essentially a marketing tactic by the vendors involved in developing the specification rather than being something useful for improving technical quality. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To

Re: Using corporate accounts when posting to Debian mailing lists

2011-05-11 Thread Russ Allbery
x27;s employer goes south. Employers are legally permitted in the US to intercept and read all of an employee's e-mail sent to a work address, for example. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...

Re: Question about GNOME Trademark and GNOME project packages in Debian

2011-07-15 Thread Russ Allbery
ed to refer to the associated product and not some different product. However, at the point that one is making that argument, one is well into lawyer territory with murky and inconsistent outcomes in trials. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: How to pronounce?

2011-07-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney writes: > That doesn't seem right at all, though; English “Ian” is not pronounced > “ee'-en”, but “ee'-ən”. I think that depends on your dialect. I've heard both. (The difference is fairly subtle.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) &l

Re: DEP: 5 Machine-readable debian/copyright - License specifications - Link broken

2011-09-11 Thread Russ Allbery
ocument, which is not part of Policy, just managed as part of the debian-policy package and via the same process. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &quo

Re: Security guidelines for Debian people

2011-11-06 Thread Russ Allbery
I'd set an expiration date on it from the start and extended it periodically, it would have expired now and it would be clear that it's no longer my key. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-pr

Re: [DEP5] Clarification of the minimum required structure

2011-12-12 Thread Russ Allbery
o be worth explaining. But we should probably decide explicitly if that's something we want to rule out. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: [DEP5] Clarification of the minimum required structure

2011-12-12 Thread Russ Allbery
d the feedback in this thread, I think > there is a general preference for the second option. Russ, does this > meet your needs? Yup. That option seems fine to me. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: [DEP5] clean up the document structure

2011-12-12 Thread Russ Allbery
age in each paragraph type. Patch is > attached. > Does this look ok? Does anyone think there's a better way to do this? > Have I introduced any errors in the conversion? Yes, please. This looks great. Thank you! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/

[DEP5] Format of Copyright header

2011-12-12 Thread Russ Allbery
to be used in copyright notices for software owned by Stanford because it's the official legal name under which the university holds property. See: http://otl.stanford.edu/inventors/inventors_copyright.html -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: [DEP5] Format of Copyright header

2011-12-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > I noticed in reviewing another patch that the Copyright header is a > line-based list. One unfortunate implication of that is that this means > lines are required to be longer than 80 columns if the name of the > copyright holder is long. For example: >

Re: [SPAM:####] [DEP5] Expat or MIT license ?

2011-12-12 Thread Russ Allbery
ambiguity for humans. However, SPDX also doesn't list the Expat license (under that name), so using MIT for the Expat license would bring us more in line with SPDX's registrations. I can see pluses and minuses either way. I think I'm not quite willing to support the change, but i

Re: [DEP5] Expat or MIT license ?

2011-12-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Sorry about the bogus subject line. For some reason, our spam filtering software (from Sophos) is absolutely convinced that SPDX is a spam hosting site (and has persisted in that belief for well over a year now). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~ea

Re: [DEP5] Format of Copyright header

2011-12-14 Thread Russ Allbery
is probably the simplest. It occurs to me that an alternative would be to say that line-based lists support something akin to RFC 5322 continuation semantics: if a line starts with two or more spaces, it's taken as a continuation of the previous line. Then you could do: Copyright: 2001 Russ A

Re: [DEP5] Format of Copyright header

2011-12-15 Thread Russ Allbery
space the continuation lines over by several more spaces, which in a free-form field indicates unwrappable text (just as in the Description field for a package). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-

Re: [DEP5] Format of Copyright header

2011-12-16 Thread Russ Allbery
ay: Formatted text, no synopsis: one or more free-form copyright statement(s). Any formatting is permitted; see the examples below for some ideas for how to structure the field to make it easier to read. instead? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.o

Re: [DEP5] Format of Copyright header

2011-12-17 Thread Russ Allbery
d lists are not an invention of DEP-5 -- they're a standard field type in Policy -- so I don't think there's a huge need to get rid of them. They're a fairly natural structure for Upstream-Contact, which I don't think poses the same problem. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.

Re: 1 year release good enough.

2012-01-01 Thread Russ Allbery
and improve even faster, and I certainly wouldn't want to stand in the way of that, but it's not part of my metric of success. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: DEP-5: Clarifying copyright/license requirements (was: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.)

2012-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
licenses. That is, you > can have "Files:" && "Copyright:" || "Files:" && "License:", but you > can't have "Files:" && "Copyright:" && "License:" I think this is way too much overhead. I

Re: DEP-5: Clarifying copyright/license requirements

2012-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
not *require* any of that. This is probably going to require special language around the case of a Files: * stanza. This is something we were discussing in the previous round of discussion last December, and I'm increasingly convinced we really need to get this out of the way somehow and not

Requirements for copyright notices in debian/copyright

2012-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
t individual files within that package have headers that look like: Copyright 2008 Russ Allbery or: Copyright Joe Smith 1995 with the same GPL notice (so there's no ambiguity about any files under a different license). Does the Debian package maintainer need to include all those oth

Re: DEP-5: Clarifying copyright/license requirements

2012-01-19 Thread Russ Allbery
ng copyright and license status in debian/copyright. but I don't think people have read that as saying what we're trying to say above, although I believe that's the intention. Maybe because it conflates two things: a change in Policy, and not requiring additional informat

Re: Bug#658209: DEP-5: Clarifying copyright/license requirements

2012-02-02 Thread Russ Allbery
the issues that I come up with (if any). However, I think it's perfectly reasonable for me to do that within the time frame that you mention above, and I don't think the process should block on that work, so the deadline you propose sounds reasonable to me. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian

Re: How about using national flags instead of text in debian.org?

2012-02-05 Thread Russ Allbery
t's very easy to blunder into an argument that one never intended and cause significant offense. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Bug#658209: DEP 5: last call before closing.

2012-02-13 Thread Russ Allbery
move forward anyway. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/877gzqqmth@windlord.stanford.edu

Re: trademark licenses and DFSG: a summary

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
rietary license with the difficult of renaming available as the stick. I think those two things are entirely consistent. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: trademark licenses and DFSG: a summary

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
our stable maintenance policies, and I think this is a good example of such a license. If I were packaging such a piece of software, I would proactively remove that clause from the license (nothing seems to prevent me from doing so), which would resolve the whole problem. That's

Re: trademark licenses and DFSG: a summary

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
eir holders and substantial public confusion already exists. Note, though, that as I understand it people have to actually *use* the permissive grant that you've given them and create confusing products to undermine your mark. If you let people do it, but no one does, that's a differe

Re: OSI affiliation

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
sort of purge of icky licenses > on their side. We would need to start by identifying the licenses that we care enough about to demand that they be purged. I suspect that list may be of zero size, mostly on the "care enough about" front. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: OSI affiliation

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
generate announcing our membership) that Debian is not adopting the OSI license review process for Debian and that Debian will continue to conduct its own license review as we do now, and that we continue to disagree with OSI in some areas on what licenses should be considered free. -- Russ Allbery (r...

DEP-5: General status and upcoming Policy release

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
document. Review of all the changes is, of course, welcome. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.de

DEP-5: Updates from recent discussions

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
exception is in effect a dual-licensed work that can be redistributed either under the GPL-2+, or under the -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

DEP-5: Updates from a general editing pass

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
on this specification over the years. The - following alphabetical list is incomplete, please suggest missing people: + following alphabetical list is incomplete; please suggest missing people: Russ Allbery, Ben Finney, Sam Hocevar, @@ -134,43 +137,47 @@ Single-line

Re: DEP-5: Updates from a general editing pass

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > @@ -869,8 +908,12 @@ Copyright 2009, 2010 Angela Watts > GFDL > > > -GNU Free Documentation License 1.0, or > -http://spdx.org/licenses/GFDL-1.1";>1.1. &

DEP-5: Patches pushed to the Debian Policy repository

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
uot; on further consideration since British spelling is used elsewhere in the document. All of my changes have now been pushed to the Debian Policy repository and the document is in the state in which I intend to release it tomorrow as part of the Policy 3.9.3 release. Please review and send any

Re: trademark licenses and DFSG: a summary

2012-03-03 Thread Russ Allbery
x27;s well-settled case law that phone books cannot be copyrighted, since they are comprehensive and hence have no creative editorial judgement, but cookbooks can be copyrighted because they do involve creative editorial judgement. (Individual recipes cannot be copyrighted because they are fact

Re: trademark licenses and DFSG: a summary

2012-03-03 Thread Russ Allbery
e comfortable with the implications for such modifications as security support (either because the rebranding is relatively easy or because we're fairly certain the trademark holder is not going to object to security support and similar stable maintenance). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debi

Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-03-23 Thread Russ Allbery
otype, etc.) or behavioral. It's not limited to gender, but that's where it most frequently comes up. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &qu

Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-03-23 Thread Russ Allbery
directly, but it should hopefully communicate the basic idea. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-03-23 Thread Russ Allbery
uot;legal" section of a web site. (Which may be a bit too much to aspire to when we're a large and diverse project; Dreamwidth has the advantage that their diversity statement only had to be signed by two people when they first wrote it.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) &

Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-03-23 Thread Russ Allbery
I'm not, they seem like a bunch of fluff. But I do think it can have a subtle, long-term effect. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-03-23 Thread Russ Allbery
7;re actively seeking out and want to align ourselves with. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87y5qrf4je@windlord.stanford.edu

Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-03-23 Thread Russ Allbery
ontains grey areas, which I think people have to sort out for themselves. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-03-26 Thread Russ Allbery
place where difference supposedly unrelated to the goal of the community can be ignored completely, if it's even possible for humans to *ever* reach such a place. The first step in being diverse is being *aware*. You cannot be aware when you're blind. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-03-27 Thread Russ Allbery
people who are already here. :) And part (although not all) of the point of a diversity statement is to be a warm welcome. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87r4weszmr@windlord.stanford.edu

Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-03-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > The first step in being diverse is being *aware*. You cannot be aware > when you're blind. And, just to point out how hard this is, as well as to further illustrate the general point that any post pointing out a spelling error contains at least one spelling

Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-03-28 Thread Russ Allbery
tive debate, when applied to, say, literary criticism, but that's not the connotation most people will take from it). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: revenue sharing agreement with DuckDuckGo

2012-03-29 Thread Russ Allbery
y of the terms of their contract with us on any derivative distribution that happens to import Debian web browser packages? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: revenue sharing agreement with DuckDuckGo

2012-03-29 Thread Russ Allbery
"dE ." writes: > On 03/30/12 07:32, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Is DuckDuckGo aware of the fact that Debian is upstream of a number of >> derivative distributions that just import our packages, and if we >> modify our packages to do this, other distributions will be c

Re: Report from DSA Team Sprint in Oslo

2012-03-31 Thread Russ Allbery
export of open source software, but I haven't been following the details closely. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-04-03 Thread Russ Allbery
on-technical areas and welcome such contributors as part > of our community. > - >8 --- >8 --- Works for me, with or without the differences mentioned in other replies. Thank you again, Francesca, for your work on this. -- Rus

Re: xth wrap-up about statement on diversity, statement may be issued without general resolution

2012-04-21 Thread Russ Allbery
ing a GR on that as well. Legal issues are always highly contentious, and it's easier to tell people to follow that position with their Debian work when it's been voted on as a GR. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-04-22 Thread Russ Allbery
ge: it appears to have gotten stuck in a mail queue somewhere and is nearly a month old. So if it looks like a replay of an earlier conversation, that's because it is. :) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-p

Re: xth wrap-up about statement on diversity, statement may be issued without general resolution

2012-04-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > Russ Allbery writes: >> Personally, I think there would be a lot of merit in holding a GR on >> that as well. Legal issues are always highly contentious, and it's >> easier to tell people to follow that position with their Debian work >>

Re: Claiming the "debian" account on GitHub ?

2012-06-14 Thread Russ Allbery
uting or creating derivative works of this work. Whether this actually places the work in the public domain is debatable and varies by jurisdiction, but it relies on estoppel to provide sufficient implicit license to be the equivalent. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: Claiming the "debian" account on GitHub ? [and 1 more messages]

2012-06-16 Thread Russ Allbery
(or is willing to spend a bunch of time nit-picking changes in pull requests). But for my packages, I rarely apply contributed patches exactly as-is, so a development method that doesn't give me the patch and that makes me merge instead of being able to git am and git commit --amend is

RFC 2047 message header encoding (was: NMUing "maintainer address bounces" bugs)

2012-06-19 Thread Russ Allbery
ent with any current mail or news client. I see you're using VM, so I'm now really surprised. Does VM not just quietly handle this for you? Gnus has for something like ten years or more. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To

Re: trademark policy draft

2012-07-31 Thread Russ Allbery
uses of the trademark by Stanford itself, so the advice is relevant to Debian-internal as well. Yes, if we "misuse" our own trademark, obviously there's no legal problem, but, as I understand it, it can put us in a situation where we can't defend the trademark any more. -- Russ A

Re: trademark policy draft

2012-08-01 Thread Russ Allbery
e a trademark. All of this is well in line with the legal advice I've heard in other contexts about trademarks. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &quo

Re: A media type for the machine-readable copyright format ?

2012-08-29 Thread Russ Allbery
NA a new media type, for > instance text/vnd.debian.copyright, for the machine-readable copyright > files following the format at > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/. > What do you think ? Sounds like a great idea to me. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: IANA RFC Idea: Feed Diff

2012-08-30 Thread Russ Allbery
e complex than dealing with IANA, unless you're trying to reigster something with a registry whose criteria is to require a standard or RFC. There are some of those, but most of them just require expert review, which is *way* easier than driving the RFC process. -- Russ Allbery (r...@de

Re: A media type for the machine-readable copyright format ?

2012-09-10 Thread Russ Allbery
sanitised as usual. Does anybody see other > potential security issues ? No, your security considerations seem reasonable to me. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: A media type for the machine-readable copyright format ?

2012-09-11 Thread Russ Allbery
ation itself. That works for me. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http:/

Re: mjg59's blog on planet.d.o

2012-10-30 Thread Russ Allbery
much content into Planet Debian, but I can undo that and give Planet Debian a full feed if people would really prefer. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &

Re: mjg59's blog on planet.d.o

2012-10-30 Thread Russ Allbery
on reactions, people seem to think I should send them, so I'm going to go ahead and do that, and then see what feedback I get and if it bothers anyone. Thanks! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-req

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Anonymous donation" to Debconf 13

2012-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
that high-functioning groups develop and maintain ethical standards is to discuss ethical quandries in public. I'm not seeing any evidence on this thread (and, indeed, directly contrary assertions from people I think we all have reason to trust) that the withdrawn offer had an

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Anonymous donation" to Debconf 13

2012-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
t imagine if there is a deficit > for Debian or some bigger disaster in 6 months - do we want people to be > speculating about the role this "sponsor" played in bringing Debian to > Le Camp? This argument seems circular. I'm unimpressed by attempts to raise concerns and then sim

Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Anonymous donation" to Debconf 13

2012-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > Russ Allbery writes: >> That seems to be exactly what happened. > No. My reading of Moray's message is that some members of the Debconf > teams used the existence of the donation as an argument in favour of > selecting Le Camp as the site. At l

Re: DEP 12: Per-package machine-readable metadata about Upstream

2013-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
run it would be nice if it would take over some of the metadata requirements of debian/copyright (all the stuff that isn't actual legal notices, basically). We currently have that information spread across multiple files; if we're going to go to the work of introducing a new file

Re: DEP 12: Per-package machine-readable metadata about Upstream

2013-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise writes: > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Of course, the other issue that this DEP raises is how much sense it >> makes to put all this stuff in the source package, either in >> debian/control or in a new file, given that most of these fiel

Re: Inbound trademark policy, round 3

2013-01-09 Thread Russ Allbery
ise the DFSG, it would be nice to make this clearer, since it's come up in some difficult cases (such as with various drafts of the LaTeX license due to the way that LaTeX components work). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Inbound trademark policy, round 3

2013-01-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Uoti Urpala writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> DFSG #4 is narrower than the possible actions that could be required by >> a trademark policy, at least in the way that we've normally interpreted >> it, since we've not interpreted it as allowing the renaming to affec

Re: Young people and computers

2013-01-29 Thread Russ Allbery
get the impression that a lot of people are starting programming that way: building little bits of code to wrap Twitter or Facebook APIs to do little automated things they want to do. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: LaMont Jones, WTH are you doing?

2013-02-06 Thread Russ Allbery
nes's uploads" would come across as less confrontational and more inquisitive, and I'm sure you still would have gotten responses. Thanks! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@l

Re: Copyright assignement for Debian tools?

2013-02-09 Thread Russ Allbery
in the past. Doesn't Debian as a whole also have nearly as many assets as all other projects in the Software Freedom Conservancy put together? It may not be healthy for them to take on Debian, as we could fairly easily turn into the tail that wags the dog. I think they mostly deal with much s

Re: Copyright assignement for Debian tools?

2013-02-09 Thread Russ Allbery
assuming that work without a specific license is distributed under the same license as the larger work is ubiquitous in the open source world. So it's not really creating any new problem. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Copyright assignement for Debian tools?

2013-02-09 Thread Russ Allbery
ically has the same amount of effect as putting "the moon is made of green cheese" in your packaging. (There may be some impact on seeking statutory damages in countries like the US where damages can change based on the presence of a copyright notice, but that's pretty much an edge cas

Re: Copyright assignement for Debian tools?

2013-02-11 Thread Russ Allbery
of the law, and they're probably all at least slightly different (sometimes significantly different in countries with a stronger moral rights doctrine than the United States). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

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