Inquiry of Debian Installation

2012-01-08 Thread 여소영
Dear Sir. I have a few questions about debian installation. Already I installed debian 5.0.2 in serveral other PC a few month ago. And there is no problem to install debain 5.0.2. But I recently tried to install the debian in another PC. When downloading from FTP mirror site, I think t

Bug#388141: Debian official web site is still non-free

2012-01-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 11:17:02PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > > I'm under the *impression* that an important amount of people objecting > copyright assignments do so to avoid the risk that their contributions > get re-licensed under terms that go against their moral beliefs about > soft

Bug#388141: Debian official web site is still non-free

2012-01-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 10:40:35PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > I think that this is exactly what people opposing to copyright > assignment want to avoid: giving permission to re-license under yet > unknown terms. I don't think you should make absolute statements for *all* the people opposing co

Bug#388141: Debian official web site is still non-free

2012-01-08 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 22:15:03 +0100 Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: [...] > A possible way out, that I'm hereby suggesting, is to ask for the right > to re-license (instead of copyright assignment), but to ask a blanket > permission to re-license under any DFSG-free license the -www team will > see fit, n

Bug#388141: Debian official web site is still non-free

2012-01-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 07:38:24PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > Recent discussions on bug #388141 [1] (starting at message #206), > include a plan to ask for copyright assignments to SPI from all future > and (then) past contributors. > I think this is the wrong approach. > > The Debian Project

Bug#388141: Debian official web site is still non-free

2012-01-08 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 21:50:17 +0100 Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 07:38:24PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > > Secondly, the web site claims [3] to be copyrighted by SPI, while it's > > not [5]. > > As a side point: the above claim of yours is no longer true, see > #632175. The

Bug#654205: Please optimize the site for handheld devices

2012-01-08 Thread Damyan Ivanov
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 01:53:46PM +0100, Francesca Ciceri wrote: > As MJ Ray pointed out, also on my Samsung Galaxy search box and download > box overlap the logos but apart from that the page looks a big > improvement. > IMHO we could create a mobile.css in which remove the left and right > margi

Bug#388141: Debian official web site is still non-free

2012-01-08 Thread Francesco Poli
Hello! I see there's (at last) some activity on bug #388141 [1]. I am happy to see that, but I personally think it's going in a slightly wrong direction... :-( First of all, a brief summary of bug #238245 [2] and of bug #388141 [1] (which started as a clone of #238245 [2]), for debian-legal read

Bug#388141: Handling the copyright mess of the website

2012-01-08 Thread David Prévot
Hi, Le 04/01/2012 07:20, Charles Plessy a écrit : > Le Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 02:56:48PM -0400, David Prévot a écrit : >> >> We could contact every current contributor, and ask them if they are OK to: >> - grant copyright of their future contributions to SPI; >> - grant copyright of their past contr

Re: listing Debian derivatives on the website?

2012-01-08 Thread David Prévot
Le 08/01/2012 05:39, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 01:06:54PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >> I remembered that I had intended to start a discussion about this. First of all, thanks for working on that. >> Move the page to a more prominent location, perhaps /derivatives? > [

Re: listing Debian derivatives on the website?

2012-01-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 01:06:54PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Recently we got a query[4] about how to add a distribution to [1] and > I remembered that I had intended to start a discussion about this. Thanks! > Move the page to a more prominent location, perhaps /derivatives? Yep, agreed. For on

Re: listing Debian derivatives on the website?

2012-01-08 Thread Ryan Finnie
While I mostly agree with every point, I do have something specific to add: On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Paul Wise wrote: >      * distributes source for all the FOSS software it distributes; I >        plan to write some code to check for that the source and binary >        package lists from