Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-22 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:31:34PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > > Which means that as per SC #4 you're welcome to package those firmware blobs > > and provide them in the non-free repository. > > That's exactly what I meant, instead of simply dropping support of > hardware, as you suggested

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-22 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 08:24:01AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > Common guys, they are simply refusing to do the work which is their > rights, but they will accept patches. Some bugs are opened for 4 years, > and I still do not see any patch to provide a loading firmware > mechanism. > > On t

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 02:17:37PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 22:47 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > Doing so would be a violation of basic NMU policy. > The claim was, hey, nobody is stopping anyone from fixing it, if it's > not fixed, it's lame for people to complain,

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Oct 21 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > And you're comfortable with ftp-master ruling DFSG-iness through NEW > then ? I don't really see the difference. I would be uncomoftable with ftp-masters willfully allowing DFSG violations in main without ratification from the project as a w

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-22 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 01:15:55PM +, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > > And you're comfortable with ftp-master ruling DFSG-iness through NEW > > then ? I don't really see the difference. > > I would be uncomoftable with ftp-masters willfull

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-22 Thread Ean Schuessler
- "AnĂ­bal Monsalve Salazar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Sun employee is the Chief Open Source Officer at Sun > Microsystems, > Simon Phipps. I'll be at Apachecon in two weeks and Simon Phipps is scheduled to be there. I'll ask him about the SUNRPC issue. Would someone privately mail me

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-22 Thread Raphael Geissert
[NO CC, please] Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 14:59 -0500, William Pitcock wrote: >> If we waited for a release to be 100% perfect, it will likely take >> several more years. The good news is that the amount of inline firmware >> in the kernel is decreasing. So, eventually, a

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 20:24 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 05:52:28PM +, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > This is the part I am not comfortable with. I do not think the > > > delegates have the powers to decide w