Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Glenn Maynard
carefully reevaluate whether what they're doing is really in the best interests of Debian; or whether they're just trying to contrive a way to pound Debian into "agreement" with the FSF. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-09 Thread Glenn Maynard
n in main" before > long. Before or after the next renaming of "creationism", I wonder? -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
sts of the DFSG or not," are you seriously > saying that such a resolution requires only a majority vote? If you take these "interpretive" GRs as not requiring 3:1, then you can bypass the 3:1 requirement entirely merely by phrasing your changes as an "interpretion", and y

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
onstitution. Those loopholes can always be created, if everyone is allowed their own interpretation of the rules; that's not an indication of lack of forethought. Fortunately, as is typically the case, everyone is not allowed their own interpretation of the rules. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about GFDL licensed works

2006-02-12 Thread Glenn Maynard
gt; works depend on a package containing a rootkit. This way, their > installation would always comply with the license. Or another popular argument these days, "not being allowed to put a password on your machine is just a practical problem, which doesn't make the license non-free"

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-26 Thread Glenn Maynard
is apparently claiming that the old SC didn't apply to firmware, as if firmware isn't software (a very strange claim, IMO). Of course, this wouldn't change the need to remove non-free firmware or GFDL'd documentation. [1] Oops. Hinted fonts have programs in them. I'm not even sure where to start on that. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Amendment to the Constitution: Add a new foundation document

2004-05-03 Thread Glenn Maynard
quot; document lays a foundation--transition plans are support, not foundation. I think putting a transition guide on a level with the Social Contract is strange. (However, I havn't been following this GR very closely.) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-26 Thread Glenn Maynard
is apparently claiming that the old SC didn't apply to firmware, as if firmware isn't software (a very strange claim, IMO). Of course, this wouldn't change the need to remove non-free firmware or GFDL'd documentation. [1] Oops. Hinted fonts have programs in them. I'm

Re: Amendment to the Constitution: Add a new foundation document

2004-05-03 Thread Glenn Maynard
quot; document lays a foundation--transition plans are support, not foundation. I think putting a transition guide on a level with the Social Contract is strange. (However, I havn't been following this GR very closely.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with