Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ma, 2006-01-30 kello 13:39 +1100, Craig Sanders kirjoitti: > i'll behave as i please. > > if you don't like my words, then don't read them - kill file me if you > feel it's necessary. Nobody has the right to be personally insulting on Debian lists. It would certainly be possible to express concer

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread MJ Ray
Craig Sanders wrote: > as has been pointed out hundreds of times before, there are several > other situations where neither the DFSG nor the debian project require > modifiability - license texts and copyright notices, for example. As has been pointed out hundreds more times, those limitations are

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 05:13:26PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 12:09:55AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: >> > On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 02:29:38AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> > >

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 09:24:15AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > GIVE. IT. A. FUCKING. REST! Craig, I'm willing to debate whatever you want to debate about the GFDL, but not with insults and shouting. Respectfully, -- .../ -/ ---/ .--./ / .--/ .-/ .../ -/ ../ -./ --./ / -.--/ ---/ ..-/ .-./ /

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 01:08:36PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 09:24:15AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > GIVE. IT. A. FUCKING. REST! > > Craig, > > I'm willing to debate whatever you want to debate about the GFDL, but > not with insults and shouting. no, the truth is

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 10:24:17AM +, MJ Ray wrote: > Craig Sanders wrote: > > as has been pointed out hundreds of times before, there are several > > other situations where neither the DFSG nor the debian project require > > modifiability - license texts and copyright notices, for example. >

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread MJ Ray
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 10:24:17AM +, MJ Ray wrote: > > As has been pointed out hundreds more times, those limitations are > > imposed by copyright law more than by licences. Even the licences > > which can be modified (such as the GPL), can't be modified if

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 01:34:45AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 01:08:36PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 09:24:15AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > GIVE. IT. A. FUCKING. REST! > > > > Craig, > > > > I'm willing to debate whatever you want to

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 03:09:53PM +, MJ Ray wrote: > > the same old bullshit and lies over and over and over again. > > Nice of you to admit you're just reheating year-old crap. > Here, I'll save the trouble of one post/debunk cycle: > "you CAN modify an invariant section - but you can only

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 03:09:53PM +, MJ Ray wrote: > > "you CAN modify an invariant section - but you can only do so > by adding a new section that subverts or refutes or simply adds > to the invariant section." (Craig Sanders, January 2005) > vs > "If it is modified, it does not do its

Re: DFSG, GFDL, and position statementsd

2006-01-30 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Because the constitution does not specify a standard for sanity or > rationality. It may be *irrational* for the project to claim that the GFDL > with invariant sections meets the DFSG's requirements, and the passing of > such a GR might leave me with

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Craig, could you please behave in a polite manner? Regardless of whether > you're right or wrong about your claims about the GFDL, your manner is > inappropriate on Debian mailing lists. Craig has already made it abundantly clear that he thinks the sta

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Craig, could you please behave in a polite manner? Regardless of whether >> you're right or wrong about your claims about the GFDL, your manner is >> ina

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think that this behaviour, as well as that on other lists in the > recent past, is making it increasingly necessary that we introduce > some way of enforcing a minimum standard of decency on our lists. We > can't continue like this for long. This sort

Re: DFSG, GFDL, and position statementsd

2006-01-30 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 01:47:02PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > but neither of those is grounds for imposing a 3:1 > > supermajority requirement. > > The problem with this view is that it effectively would nullify the > 3:1 requirement if applied in some other cases. Not necessarily

Re: DFSG, GFDL, and position statementsd

2006-01-30 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Anton Zinoviev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 01:47:02PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> >> > but neither of those is grounds for imposing a 3:1 >> > supermajority requirement. >> >> The problem with this view is that it effectively would nullify the >> 3:1 requirem

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 04:12:09PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 01:34:45AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 01:08:36PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > I'm willing to debate whatever you want to debate about the GFDL, but > > > not with insults a

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > with one of you, as with all, there's no point in engaging in debate or > any kind of civilised discourse. I wish Craig would stop posting rather than spending time telling us how useless his posts are. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Minimum standard of decency, was: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread MJ Ray
Roger Leigh > I think that this behaviour, as well as that on other lists in the > recent past, is making it increasingly necessary that we introduce > some way of enforcing a minimum standard of decency on our lists. [...] You pillory[1] a man over his -private beliefs about death[2] to the point

Re: Minimum standard of decency, was: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nevertheless, Craig Sanders's colourful rants break the lists code > of conduct far more clearly than posting satire to -devel-announce. > Where are the winged angels of vengence? But then, the d-d-a ban > didn't look like it was about enforcing the list codes

Re: Minimum standard of decency, was: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Adeodato Simó
* MJ Ray [Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:25:48 +]: > to the point where he recoils from the project[3], don't answer Are you deliberately lying here, to make your point prettier, or are you ciberately stating that Andrew lied himself in [3]? > 3. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/01/msg00

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > with one of you, as with all, there's no point in engaging in debate or > any kind of civilised discourse. So ... Why don't you just stop the flaming, if there's no point anyway? I have the feeling that this would somehow improve the climate of the discu

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:10:11AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 04:12:09PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 01:34:45AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 01:08:36PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > > I'm willing to debate w

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 06:13:14PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > no, the truth is, you're blinkered and inflexible and determined to > twist [...] oh look, it's yet another wind up doll - how cute. how long did it take to train you? can you do other tricks? there does seem to be a lot of t

Deadline for amendments to the GR

2006-01-30 Thread Debian Project Secretary
Hi folks, A new amendment has made it in to the GR _after_ the two week discussion deadline. If there are other people mulling proposals for amendments to the GR, now is the time -- if submissions keep coming in at two week intervals, voting on this GR can be delayed almost indefinitel

Re: The invariant sections are not forbidden by DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 09:54:40AM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote: > Anton Zinoviev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Let the sheet instead be a coffee cup; in Germany Lehmann's sell > >> cups with Emacs or vi commands on them. You can't add a second cup > >> for the invariant sections, even if they fit