Re: [Amendement] override of resolutions 005, 006, 007, 008

2006-10-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:00:42AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:13:36PM +, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Dear Debian voters, > > > > I humbly submit to your elevated mass the following amendment > > to the latest General Resolution proposed by Sven Luther. > > > > ==

Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-18 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Don Armstrong said: > On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 03:49:25PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > > The answer to the question in the subject is simple: NO. > > > > Thankyou for your opinion. I note you seemed to neglect to menti

Re: [Amendement] override of resolutions 005, 006, 007, 008

2006-10-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:42:59AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:00:42AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:13:36PM +, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > Dear Debian voters, > > > > > > I humbly submit to your elevated mass the following amendment > >

Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-18 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:06:19 +0100 Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Don Armstrong said: [...] > > baring competent legal advice to the contrary,[1] distributing > > sourceless GPLed works is not clear of legal liability. Doing > > otherwise may put ourselves and our mirror operat

Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-18 Thread Michael Poole
Francesco Poli writes: > What makes you think that every and each copyright holder acted in good > faith when started to distribute firmware under the terms of the GNU GPL > v2, while keeping the source code secret? > Some copyright holder could be deliberately preparing a trap, in order > to be a