Debian History Document

1998-08-13 Thread Will Lowe
I have begun to compile the history of the Debian Project and SPI in preperation for the Debian Birthday celebration and for the web site. The first revision is available at http://master.debian.org/~lowe/debian-history.txt but is not complete. This is as much information as I have been able to c

Re: 'nother idea: history.html

1998-08-13 Thread Will Lowe
> This is supposed to be a manual in the Debian Documentation Project: > Please contribute your work to the DDP. Ok. Ian M. sent a reply, so I'll ask a few others. It'd be nice to ask bruce, but I don't think that's really such a good idea at the moment ...

Re: Is NPL DFSG complient or not?

1998-08-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > However, a list of common popular licenses that have been > examined and are known to qualify would be a good thing, as long as > no claim is made about correctness or completeness which may open us > up to liability. I've attached such a list. Webmasters: Pleas

Re: Is NPL DFSG complient or not?

1998-08-13 Thread Richard Braakman
Philip Hands wrote: > > Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah, but that's only option b). You also have option a), which is to > > distribute binary and source together, like we do. Then you can drop > > the source as soon as you drop the binary. The NPL has no such option. > >

Re: 'nother idea: history.html

1998-08-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
Will Lowe wrote: >> Please go ahead and collect information. IanM is probably a good point >> or person to start. > >I've sent him a brief note asking for anything he can contribute. After I >hear back from him I'll send a message to -devel requesting the same >thing, and we'll see w

Re: 'nother idea: history.html

1998-08-13 Thread Craig Small
Will Lowe wrote: > > This type of thing should be something open to all developers to work on. > > The bottom of intro/about.html has been waiting for someone to work on > > a history for over a year. It is best if we can get ANYONE to write > > a history and we simply htmlize afterwards. > > Mayb

Re: Is NPL DFSG complient or not?

1998-08-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Martin" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> However I believe that we should maintain a list of other licenses Martin> that are DFSG free so people can look it up, don't have to worry, don't Martin> have to care etc. I'm not refering to every single license of every M

Re: Is NPL DFSG complient or not?

1998-08-13 Thread Philip Hands
> Philip Hands wrote: > > Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This means that if we distribute modified versions of an NPL'd > > > program, we're going to have to keep source packages around long after > > > we have replaced the binaries with new versions. We have no mechanism > > >

Re: Is NPL DFSG complient or not?

1998-08-13 Thread Richard Braakman
Philip Hands wrote: > Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This means that if we distribute modified versions of an NPL'd > > program, we're going to have to keep source packages around long after > > we have replaced the binaries with new versions. We have no mechanism > > in place for

Re: More bad links

1998-08-13 Thread Christophe Le Bars
Le Wed, 12 Aug 1998 10:44:48 -0400 (EDT) , <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (James A. Treacy) a écrit: «> Please use this instead: «> «> http://www.teaser.fr/~clebars/debian/f2dp/docs/markup.fr.html/index.html «> «Fixed. BTW, if you coordinate a translation effort, feel free to make «modifications t

Re: Is NPL DFSG complient or not?

1998-08-13 Thread Philip Hands
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This means that if we distribute modified versions of an NPL'd > program, we're going to have to keep source packages around long after > we have replaced the binaries with new versions. We have no mechanism > in place for this. Take a look at the GPL