Re: one of the many reasons why removing non-free is a dumb idea

2004-01-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 11:44:17PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Craig Sanders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >This non-free data & documentation can still be used and even modifed by > >the end-user, however, > Not necessarily legally modified. In the US you may need a license to > modify wor

Re: Candidate social contract amendments (part 1: editorial) (3rd draft)

2004-01-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2004/debian-vote-200401/msg01192.html snipped> Andrew, I love it. :-) Every word. This is so much more important than "non-free or not". To me anyway. --Nathanael Nerode

Re: [Proposal] Updating the Social Contract

2004-01-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, in http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2004/debian-vote-200401/msg01122.html: 5. Programs That Don't Meet Our Free-Software Standards We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of programs Should be "programs and other software". Software

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Sven Luther wrote: But as you said, it doesn't really prove anything, only that the people using popularity contest don't really use these non-free packages much. What about all those who don't run popularity contest, or those who are offline ? What about monitoring BTS traffic for those packages

Re: OT: unicorn, was: one of the many reasons why removing non-free isa dumb idea

2004-01-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Sven Luther wrote: Also, another danger i see in it, is that if we don't have a a non-free anymore, many packages which are borderlines, and which go into non-free today, will be tempted to go into main (well, not good english, but i guess you understand). M J Ray wrote: We make mistakes somet

Re: We *can* be Free-only

2004-01-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
John Goerzen wrote: What's more, if there really are as many people that find non-free vital, they will no doubt posess the skill, will, and resources to ensure that a quality non-free repository will exist for a long time. I very much suspect they will do a better job maintaining it than we ha

Re: one of the many reasons why removing non-free is a dumb idea

2004-01-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Craig Sanders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This non-free data & documentation can still be used and even modifed by the end-user, however, Not necessarily legally modified. In the US you may need a license to modify works even privately; it's legally unclear. and the fact that modified versions

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
the importance of non-free software has greatly decreased since the founding of the project; and But, unfortunately, the FSF releases large amounts of non-free software (documentation) which many people would consider important. Eventually it will be replaced or relicensed, but

Re: one of the many reasons why removing non-free is a dumb idea

2004-01-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 11:44:17PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Craig Sanders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >This non-free data & documentation can still be used and even modifed by > >the end-user, however, > Not necessarily legally modified. In the US you may need a license to > modify wor

Re: Candidate social contract amendments (part 1: editorial) (3rd draft)

2004-01-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2004/debian-vote-200401/msg01192.html snipped> Andrew, I love it. :-) Every word. This is so much more important than "non-free or not". To me anyway. --Nathanael Nerode -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: [Proposal] Updating the Social Contract

2004-01-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, in http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2004/debian-vote-200401/msg01122.html: 5. Programs That Don't Meet Our Free-Software Standards We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of programs Should be "programs and other software". Software

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Sven Luther wrote: But as you said, it doesn't really prove anything, only that the people using popularity contest don't really use these non-free packages much. What about all those who don't run popularity contest, or those who are offline ? What about monitoring BTS traffic for those packages ?

Re: OT: unicorn, was: one of the many reasons why removing non-free isa dumb idea

2004-01-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Sven Luther wrote: Also, another danger i see in it, is that if we don't have a a non-free anymore, many packages which are borderlines, and which go into non-free today, will be tempted to go into main (well, not good english, but i guess you understand). M J Ray wrote: We make mistakes sometimes

Re: Subject: Proposal - keep non-free, but commit to actively encouraging making individual packages obsolet

2004-01-11 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:26:11PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Also, this means that we will provide free alternatives, which is a bit > > > more but also a bit less than what i propose. In my proposal the free > > > alternatives could well not be packaged (yet). But on the same time, my > > >

Re: We *can* be Free-only

2004-01-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
John Goerzen wrote: What's more, if there really are as many people that find non-free vital, they will no doubt posess the skill, will, and resources to ensure that a quality non-free repository will exist for a long time. I very much suspect they will do a better job maintaining it than we have

Re: one of the many reasons why removing non-free is a dumb idea

2004-01-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Craig Sanders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This non-free data & documentation can still be used and even modifed by the end-user, however, Not necessarily legally modified. In the US you may need a license to modify works even privately; it's legally unclear. and the fact that modified versions ca

Re: Candidate social contract amendments (part 1: editorial) (3rd draft)

2004-01-11 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 06:13:49PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > Note: as you've currently proposed this, it's not clear whether you > > intended to offer it as an alternative to your other proposal or not. > > > > There are a few things in there that I like. If you are willing to > > propose a v

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
the importance of non-free software has greatly decreased since the founding of the project; and But, unfortunately, the FSF releases large amounts of non-free software (documentation) which many people would consider important. Eventually it will be replaced or relicensed, but t

Re: [Proposal] Updating the Social Contract

2004-01-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 06:06:35PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > This proposal replaces the amendment I submitted earlier today. This > version removes "Linux" from the title and spells out who the contract > is with. I also fix the grammatical mistake Sven f

Re: Subject: Proposal - keep non-free, but commit to actively encouraging making individual packages obsolet

2004-01-11 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:26:11PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Also, this means that we will provide free alternatives, which is a bit > > > more but also a bit less than what i propose. In my proposal the free > > > alternatives could well not be packaged (yet). But on the same time, my > > >

Re: Candidate social contract amendments (part 1: editorial) (3rd draft)

2004-01-11 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 06:13:49PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > Note: as you've currently proposed this, it's not clear whether you > > intended to offer it as an alternative to your other proposal or not. > > > > There are a few things in there that I like. If you are willing to > > propose a v

Re: [Proposal] Updating the Social Contract

2004-01-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 06:06:35PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > This proposal replaces the amendment I submitted earlier today. This > version removes "Linux" from the title and spells out who the contract > is with. I also fix the grammatical mistake Sven f

Re: Candidate social contract amendments (part 1: editorial) (3rd draft)

2004-01-11 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 06:13:49PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > Note: as you've currently proposed this, it's not clear whether you > intended to offer it as an alternative to your other proposal or not. > > There are a few things in there that I like. If you are willing to > propose a version whi

Re: Subject: Proposal - keep non-free, but commit to actively encouraging making individual packages obsolet

2004-01-11 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 05:42:50PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:26:11PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Also, this means that we will provide free alternatives, which is a bit > > more but also a bit less than what i propose. In my proposal the free > > alternatives could we

Re: Subject: Proposal - keep non-free, but commit to actively encouraging making individual packages obsolet

2004-01-11 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 07:14:14PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > +Still, we will actively encourage users of non-free software to migrate to > +free alternatives when they are available, and either encourage the upstream > +authors to modify their licence to a DFSG-free one and/or encourage the > +de

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:52:48AM +, MJ Ray wrote: > On 2004-01-12 00:26:59 + Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >well, frankly, your use of percentages was a little dishonest to say the > >least, as it let you round-off many packages to '0'. > > If you think that rounding off

Re: Candidate social contract amendments (part 1: editorial) (3rd draft)

2004-01-11 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 06:13:49PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > Note: as you've currently proposed this, it's not clear whether you > intended to offer it as an alternative to your other proposal or not. > > There are a few things in there that I like. If you are willing to > propose a version whi

Re: Subject: Proposal - keep non-free, but commit to actively encouraging making individual packages obsolet

2004-01-11 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 07:14:14PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > +Still, we will actively encourage users of non-free software to migrate to > +free alternatives when they are available, and either encourage the upstream > +authors to modify their licence to a DFSG-free one and/or encourage the > +de

Re: Subject: Proposal - keep non-free, but commit to actively encouraging making individual packages obsolet

2004-01-11 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 05:42:50PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:26:11PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Also, this means that we will provide free alternatives, which is a bit > > more but also a bit less than what i propose. In my proposal the free > > alternatives could we

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-11 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-01-12 00:26:59 + Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: well, frankly, your use of percentages was a little dishonest to say the least, as it let you round-off many packages to '0'. If you think that rounding off is dishonest, you must be really fun when buying things that have

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 12:02:09PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > It is simply not possible to discuss people who are not honest and try > > every trick in the book to come out right, even if they are wrong, as > > you evidently are. > > Oh c'mon. Just because I made a mistake doesn't mean that I

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:52:48AM +, MJ Ray wrote: > On 2004-01-12 00:26:59 + Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >well, frankly, your use of percentages was a little dishonest to say the > >least, as it let you round-off many packages to '0'. > > If you think that rounding off

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-11 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-01-12 00:26:59 + Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: well, frankly, your use of percentages was a little dishonest to say the least, as it let you round-off many packages to '0'. If you think that rounding off is dishonest, you must be really fun when buying things that have sa

Re: Why not s/non-free/semi-free/g and remove non-free.

2004-01-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 08:40:17PM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I do understand the negative feeling of carrying archive called "non-free" in > Debian, the Free Software Organization. At the same time, I understand the > practical benefits of the continuation of archive contents now called > "non-fr

Re: Statistics on non-free usage

2004-01-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 12:02:09PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > It is simply not possible to discuss people who are not honest and try > > every trick in the book to come out right, even if they are wrong, as > > you evidently are. > > Oh c'mon. Just because I made a mistake doesn't mean that I

Re: Candidate social contract amendments (part 1: editorial) (3rd draft)

2004-01-11 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 10:51:38PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > This got delayed a bit longer than I was hoping, but I think this > covers everything. Changes from the second draft are at the end. I'll > propose a GR based around this in a few days. And I just sent a modified version of my own

Re: [Proposal] Updating the Social Contract

2004-01-11 Thread Raul Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- This proposal replaces the amendment I submitted earlier today. This version removes "Linux" from the title and spells out who the contract is with. I also fix the grammatical mistake Sven found. We will change the title of the social contract to read: Deb

Re: summary of software licenses in non-free

2004-01-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:05:37AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Craig Sanders wrote: > > ALMOST FREE > > --- > > While I appreciate your effort, non-free means that the package doesn't meet > the DFSG but can be distributed by Debian and our mirrors. According to our > own guidelines th

Re: Why not s/non-free/semi-free/g and remove non-free.

2004-01-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 08:40:17PM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I do understand the negative feeling of carrying archive called "non-free" in > Debian, the Free Software Organization. At the same time, I understand the > practical benefits of the continuation of archive contents now called > "non-fr

Candidate social contract amendments (part 1: editorial) (3rd draft)

2004-01-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
This got delayed a bit longer than I was hoping, but I think this covers everything. Changes from the second draft are at the end. I'll propose a GR based around this in a few days. "spurious" here means that I consider the offending item to add nothing but words (ie, it doesn't mean anything, an

Re: Subject: Proposal - keep non-free, but commit to actively encouraging making individual packages obsolet

2004-01-11 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:26:11PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > That said, you say : > >Additionally, we will work to provide free alternatives to >non-free software so people who using only free software can work >with users of non-free software. > > Which means moslty th

Re: Candidate social contract amendments (part 1: editorial) (3rd draft)

2004-01-11 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 10:51:38PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > This got delayed a bit longer than I was hoping, but I think this > covers everything. Changes from the second draft are at the end. I'll > propose a GR based around this in a few days. And I just sent a modified version of my own

Re: [Proposal] Updating the Social Contract

2004-01-11 Thread Raul Miller
* Anthony Towns > > | 1. Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software > | > | We promise to keep the Debian GNU/Linux Distribution entirely free > | software. > | > | so that we can avoid having to claim that On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:04:16PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > What about th

Re: [Proposal] Updating the Social Contract

2004-01-11 Thread Raul Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- This proposal replaces the amendment I submitted earlier today. This version removes "Linux" from the title and spells out who the contract is with. I also fix the grammatical mistake Sven found. We will change the title of the social contract to read: Deb

Re: Why not s/non-free/semi-free/g and remove non-free.

2004-01-11 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 08:40:17PM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I would like to propose changes "s/non-free/semi-free/g" for the social > contract after sarge release together with smooth archive directory > reorganization "s/non-free/semi-free/g" to remove "non-free" from Debian. At first glance, t

Re: summary of software licenses in non-free

2004-01-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:05:37AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Craig Sanders wrote: > > ALMOST FREE > > --- > > While I appreciate your effort, non-free means that the package doesn't meet > the DFSG but can be distributed by Debian and our mirrors. According to our > own guidelines th

Candidate social contract amendments (part 1: editorial) (3rd draft)

2004-01-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
This got delayed a bit longer than I was hoping, but I think this covers everything. Changes from the second draft are at the end. I'll propose a GR based around this in a few days. "spurious" here means that I consider the offending item to add nothing but words (ie, it doesn't mean anything, an

Re: Subject: Proposal - keep non-free, but commit to actively encouraging making individual packages obsolet

2004-01-11 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:26:11PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > That said, you say : > >Additionally, we will work to provide free alternatives to >non-free software so people who using only free software can work >with users of non-free software. > > Which means moslty th

Re: [Proposal] Updating the Social Contract

2004-01-11 Thread Raul Miller
* Anthony Towns > > | 1. Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software > | > | We promise to keep the Debian GNU/Linux Distribution entirely free > | software. > | > | so that we can avoid having to claim that On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:04:16PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > What about th

Re: Why not s/non-free/semi-free/g and remove non-free.

2004-01-11 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 08:40:17PM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I would like to propose changes "s/non-free/semi-free/g" for the social > contract after sarge release together with smooth archive directory > reorganization "s/non-free/semi-free/g" to remove "non-free" from Debian. At first glance, t

Re: Subject: Proposal - keep non-free, but commit to actively encouraging making individual packages obsolet

2004-01-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 02:03:29PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 07:14:14PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > So, i ask the people who are interested in such a proposal, or even which > > are > > interested in providing one more option for the vote, to second this > > proposal,>

Re: Subject: Proposal - keep non-free, but commit to actively encouraging making individual packages obsolet

2004-01-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Raul Miller | Also, since my pgp key is so ancient people with recently installed | systems probably won't be able to verify it, and since I haven't submitted | my new gpg key yet, could someone who can verify my signature please post | a signed statement to the list indicating whether or not t

Re: [Proposal] Updating the Social Contract

2004-01-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Anthony Towns | 1. Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software | | We promise to keep the Debian GNU/Linux Distribution entirely free | software. | | so that we can avoid having to claim that What about the Hurd and the BSDs? -- Tollef Fog Heen

Why not s/non-free/semi-free/g and remove non-free.

2004-01-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I would like to propose changes "s/non-free/semi-free/g" for the social contract after sarge release together with smooth archive directory reorganization "s/non-free/semi-free/g" to remove "non-free" from Debian. Here is my rationale: Whereas in the previous discussion on this "removal of n

Re: Subject: Proposal - keep non-free, but commit to actively encouraging making individual packages obsolet

2004-01-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 02:03:29PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 07:14:14PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > So, i ask the people who are interested in such a proposal, or even which are > > interested in providing one more option for the vote, to second this proposal,> > > and

Re: Subject: Proposal - keep non-free, but commit to actively encouraging making individual packages obsolet

2004-01-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Raul Miller | Also, since my pgp key is so ancient people with recently installed | systems probably won't be able to verify it, and since I haven't submitted | my new gpg key yet, could someone who can verify my signature please post | a signed statement to the list indicating whether or not t

Re: [Proposal] Updating the Social Contract

2004-01-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Anthony Towns | 1. Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software | | We promise to keep the Debian GNU/Linux Distribution entirely free | software. | | so that we can avoid having to claim that What about the Hurd and the BSDs? -- Tollef Fog Heen

Re: [Proposal] Social Contract Amendment

2004-01-11 Thread Sven Luther
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 |This is formally an amendment to the |resolution proposed by Andrew Suffield on 29 Dec 2003 |(http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200312/msg00044.html), |in the sense of deleting all text other than "I propose the following |resolutio

Re: Subject: Proposal - keep non-free, but commit to actively encouraging making individual packages obsolet

2004-01-11 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 07:14:14PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > So, i ask the people who are interested in such a proposal, or even which are > interested in providing one more option for the vote, to second this > proposal,> and to help me making the necessary word changes that may be > necessary

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 08:22:08 -0500, Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:06:46AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 11:58:46AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: >> > On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 09:53:37AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: >> > > I don't expect

Why not s/non-free/semi-free/g and remove non-free.

2004-01-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I would like to propose changes "s/non-free/semi-free/g" for the social contract after sarge release together with smooth archive directory reorganization "s/non-free/semi-free/g" to remove "non-free" from Debian. Here is my rationale: Whereas in the previous discussion on this "removal of n

Re: The "Free" vs. "Non-Free" issue

2004-01-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 13:00:27 +, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 2004-01-10 08:56:37 + Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >>> Can a GR commit to any specific transition support? >> If the other actions proposed by hte GR are contingent of the >> transition plan, then perh

[Comments] Re: [Proposal] Social Contract Amendment

2004-01-11 Thread Raul Miller
This is a somewhat detailed description of the changes I'm proposing. 1. Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software There were two sentences here, in my proposal there are three. I changed the first sentence so the point of "entirely free software" was clear, and to not contradict the constitution,

Subject: Proposal - keep non-free, but commit to actively encouraging making individual packages obsolet

2004-01-11 Thread Sven Luther
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, As promised, i fill here a ammendment (or should it be called a counter-proposal) to the remove non-free proposal. This can be seen as a middle point between the two possibilities of the vote which were either keep non-free and continue as usu

[Proposal] Social Contract Amendment

2004-01-11 Thread Raul Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- This is formally an amendment to the resolution proposed by Andrew Suffield on 29 Dec 2003 (http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200312/msg00044.html), in the sense of deleting all text other than "I propose the following resolution:" and replacin

Re: [Proposal] Social Contract Amendment

2004-01-11 Thread Sven Luther
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 |This is formally an amendment to the |resolution proposed by Andrew Suffield on 29 Dec 2003 |(http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200312/msg00044.html), |in the sense of deleting all text other than "I propose the following |resolutio

Re: Subject: Proposal - keep non-free, but commit to actively encouraging making individual packages obsolet

2004-01-11 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 07:14:14PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > So, i ask the people who are interested in such a proposal, or even which are > interested in providing one more option for the vote, to second this proposal,> and > to help me making the necessary word changes that may be necessary.

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 08:22:08 -0500, Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:06:46AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 11:58:46AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: >> > On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 09:53:37AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: >> > > I don't expect

Re: Draft for a non-fee poll (Was: Re: Let's vote already...)

2004-01-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 11:40:06AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 05:09:36PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Mmm, i didn't see any December 29 proposal. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200312/msg00044.html Ah, ok, sure. I thought that proposals should

Re: The "Free" vs. "Non-Free" issue

2004-01-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 13:00:27 +, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 2004-01-10 08:56:37 + Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >>> Can a GR commit to any specific transition support? >> If the other actions proposed by hte GR are contingent of the >> transition plan, then perh

[Comments] Re: [Proposal] Social Contract Amendment

2004-01-11 Thread Raul Miller
This is a somewhat detailed description of the changes I'm proposing. 1. Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software There were two sentences here, in my proposal there are three. I changed the first sentence so the point of "entirely free software" was clear, and to not contradict the constitution,

Subject: Proposal - keep non-free, but commit to actively encouraging making individual packages obsolet

2004-01-11 Thread Sven Luther
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, As promised, i fill here a ammendment (or should it be called a counter-proposal) to the remove non-free proposal. This can be seen as a middle point between the two possibilities of the vote which were either keep non-free and continue as usu

Re: summary of software licenses in non-free

2004-01-11 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 06:57:09PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > mocka BSD-style license with noxious advertising clause. why is > > this > > in non-free? > > This does look like a mistaken categorization to me; to my eye,

[Proposal] Social Contract Amendment

2004-01-11 Thread Raul Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- This is formally an amendment to the resolution proposed by Andrew Suffield on 29 Dec 2003 (http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200312/msg00044.html), in the sense of deleting all text other than "I propose the following resolution:" and replacin

Re: Draft for a non-fee poll (Was: Re: Let's vote already...)

2004-01-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 11:40:06AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 05:09:36PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Mmm, i didn't see any December 29 proposal. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200312/msg00044.html Ah, ok, sure. I thought that proposals should

Re: summary of software licenses in non-free

2004-01-11 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 06:57:09PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > mocka BSD-style license with noxious advertising clause. why is this > > in non-free? > > This does look like a mistaken categorization to me; to my eye, the

Re: Draft for a non-fee poll (Was: Re: Let's vote already...)

2004-01-11 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 05:09:36PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Mmm, i didn't see any December 29 proposal. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200312/msg00044.html -- Raul

Re: summary of software licenses in non-free

2004-01-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 01:03:56PM +, MJ Ray wrote: > On 2004-01-10 11:55:07 + Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >The problem with third party servers, is for how long they will be > >able > >to make a commitment [...] > > I suspect that W3C (for example) could make a commitm

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 04:22:57PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2004, at 21:41, Raul Miller wrote: > > >But is that because of what's contained in "non-free" or is that > >because > >of the name "non-free"? > > Currently, jdk1.1 is in non-free (or at least was last I looked).

Re: Draft for a non-fee poll (Was: Re: Let's vote already...)

2004-01-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 09:54:51PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 10:08:01PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 07:11:50PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 01:26:30PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Since the non-free GR and t

Re: [Proposal] Updating the Social Contract

2004-01-11 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 11:57:49PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > If we're amending the social contract and keeping non-free, I think we should > amend: > > 1. Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software > > We promise to keep the Debian GNU/Linux Distribution entirely free > software. Good

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:22:10AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 04:18:23PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2004, at 20:26, Anthony Towns wrote: > > >and thus [go a long way] > > >towards [getting non-free removed from Debian]", then they should want > > >to

Re: Draft for a non-fee poll (Was: Re: Let's vote already...)

2004-01-11 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 05:09:36PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Mmm, i didn't see any December 29 proposal. http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200312/msg00044.html -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: [Proposal] Updating the Social Contract

2004-01-11 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 01:05:00PM +, MJ Ray wrote: > It would have been helpful to describe your changes. Ok. > Are DFSG 7 and 9 also required for entry into non-free? Good point. > I oppose this proposal because it increases confusion about what is > part of the distribution and increas

Re: summary of software licenses in non-free

2004-01-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 01:03:56PM +, MJ Ray wrote: > On 2004-01-10 11:55:07 + Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >The problem with third party servers, is for how long they will be > >able > >to make a commitment [...] > > I suspect that W3C (for example) could make a commitm

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 04:22:57PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2004, at 21:41, Raul Miller wrote: > > >But is that because of what's contained in "non-free" or is that > >because > >of the name "non-free"? > > Currently, jdk1.1 is in non-free (or at least was last I looked).

Re: Draft for a non-fee poll (Was: Re: Let's vote already...)

2004-01-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 09:54:51PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 10:08:01PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 07:11:50PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 01:26:30PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Since the non-free GR and t

Re: [Proposal] Updating the Social Contract

2004-01-11 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 11:57:49PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > If we're amending the social contract and keeping non-free, I think we should > amend: > > 1. Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software > > We promise to keep the Debian GNU/Linux Distribution entirely free > software. Good

Re: GR: Removal of non-free (with explanation)

2004-01-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:12:18AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 10:01:47PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > The next release of Debian will not be accompanied by a non-free > > section; there will be no more stable releases of the non-free > > section. The Debian projec

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:22:10AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 04:18:23PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2004, at 20:26, Anthony Towns wrote: > > >and thus [go a long way] > > >towards [getting non-free removed from Debian]", then they should want > > >to

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 04:18:23PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Jan 9, 2004, at 20:26, Anthony Towns wrote: > >and thus [go a long way] > >towards [getting non-free removed from Debian]", then they should want > >to setup such an archive. > If I were to set up a non-free archive, complete

Re: [Proposal] Updating the Social Contract

2004-01-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 10:26:23AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > I propose we amend section 5 of the social contract so that it reads: >[...] > If you think this is a bad idea, please explain what you see that need > to be solved, and suggest how to make it better. If we're amending the social

Re: GR: Removal of non-free (with explanation)

2004-01-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 10:01:47PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > ---8<--- > The next release of Debian will not be accompanied by a non-free > section; there will be no more stable releases of the non-free > section. The Debian pr

Re: [Proposal] Updating the Social Contract

2004-01-11 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 01:05:00PM +, MJ Ray wrote: > It would have been helpful to describe your changes. Ok. > Are DFSG 7 and 9 also required for entry into non-free? Good point. > I oppose this proposal because it increases confusion about what is > part of the distribution and increas

Re: GR: Removal of non-free (with explanation)

2004-01-11 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 10:01:47PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > The next release of Debian will not be accompanied by a non-free > section; there will be no more stable releases of the non-free > section. The Debian project will cease active support of the > non-free section. Clause 5 of the

Re: GR: Removal of non-free (with explanation)

2004-01-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:12:18AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 10:01:47PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > The next release of Debian will not be accompanied by a non-free > > section; there will be no more stable releases of the non-free > > section. The Debian projec

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 04:18:23PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Jan 9, 2004, at 20:26, Anthony Towns wrote: > >and thus [go a long way] > >towards [getting non-free removed from Debian]", then they should want > >to setup such an archive. > If I were to set up a non-free archive, complete

Re: [Proposal] Updating the Social Contract

2004-01-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 10:26:23AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > I propose we amend section 5 of the social contract so that it reads: >[...] > If you think this is a bad idea, please explain what you see that need > to be solved, and suggest how to make it better. If we're amending the social

Re: GR: Removal of non-free (with explanation)

2004-01-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 10:01:47PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > ---8<--- > The next release of Debian will not be accompanied by a non-free > section; there will be no more stable releases of the non-free > section. The Debian pr

Re: GR: Removal of non-free (with explanation)

2004-01-11 Thread Tore Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Andrew Suffield > ---8<--- > The next release of Debian will not be accompanied by a non-free > section; there will be no more stable releases of the non-free > section. The Debi

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