Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-11 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 14:49, Mathieu Roy wrote: Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : * Mathieu Roy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030909 11:20]: And it leads me to another question for the list: when

Re: Bug#181493: SUN RPC code is DFSG-free

2003-09-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:35:12 +0200, Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Op wo 10-09-2003, om 03:27 schreef Manoj Srivastava: On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 22:17:07 +0200, Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Op ma 08-09-2003, om 18:42 schreef Manoj Srivastava: Since our users and the DFSG

Re: getting personalities out of the FSF-Debian argument

2003-09-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 23:38:16 -0700 (PDT), Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 21:56:51 -0700 (PDT), Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Richard, Branden, and Co., I remain convinced that hot tempers are getting in the way. Thus, I would like to make two requests: 1.

Re: getting personalities out of the FSF-Debian argument

2003-09-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 11:15:35 -0400, Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I think we (Debian) would be nuts of deprive ourselves of Branden's experience with licensing issues, and this issue in particular. RMS doesn't read -legal and I'm quite sure other FSF readers won't read personal

FW: quant job

2003-09-11 Thread Azhar Abdul-Quader
-Original Message- From: Azhar Abdul-Quader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 1:16 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: FW: quant job To Whom It May Concern: I am applying for the quantitative position posted on Craigs List. I feel that I am a

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-11 Thread Mathieu Roy
Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : On Tuesday, Sep 9, 2003, at 07:12 US/Eastern, Mathieu Roy wrote: Please review the archive. GFDL is non-free even without invariant sections, due to the anti-DMCA clause. This has been discussed recently and it was so not clear. The

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-11 Thread Mathieu Roy
Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : On Tuesday, Sep 9, 2003, at 12:29 US/Eastern, Mathieu Roy wrote: So a country were you are free to kill a girl without any legal risk is a country DFSG compliant? Please cite the specific paragraph of the DFSG that has _anything_ to do

Learning to read, was: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-11 Thread MJ Ray
On 2003-09-11 09:07:07 +0100 Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A poll gives an overview of the feelings of people participating to the poll. It does not at all prove that something is right or wrong. It was stated GFDL is non-free even without invariant sections, due to the anti-DMCA

Re: Preferred license for documentation

2003-09-11 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 04:55:40PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 12:52:35PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: As I recall, the OPL has a thing equivalent to the GNU FDL's Cover Texts. The GNU FDL's Cover Texts are immutable and unremovable, and so are the OPL's. What it

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Mathieu Roy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030911 10:20]: Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : On Tuesday, Sep 9, 2003, at 12:29 US/Eastern, Mathieu Roy wrote: So a country were you are free to kill a girl without any legal risk is a country DFSG compliant? Please cite the specific

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-11 Thread Mathieu Roy
Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : * Mathieu Roy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030911 10:20]: Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : On Tuesday, Sep 9, 2003, at 12:29 US/Eastern, Mathieu Roy wrote: So a country were you are free to kill a girl without any legal risk is a

A WDL.

2003-09-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, As I tried to point out in the recent discussions about the GFDL (not sure whether that point has come through, but anyway), although the GFDL is crafted in a way which makes it not DFSG-free, IMHO there is nothing wrong with the spirit, the intention, of the GFDL. As such, I've taken the

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-11 Thread Jeremy Hankins
Disclaimer: I'm not a debian-developer, and consequently I have no official standing in the Debian community. But I have been participating on debian-legal for some time (at least since the beginning of the GFDL discussion here a few years back), and am at least somewhat familiar with the issues

Re: getting personalities out of the FSF-Debian argument

2003-09-11 Thread Jeremy Hankins
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 23:38:16 -0700 (PDT), Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am hoping that I can deal with both organizations _as_ organizations. I think this very premise is shaky. No one person can really represent the Debian project when

Re: free source code which requires non-free tools to build (dscaler modules for tvtime)

2003-09-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030910 21:50]: I'm having some difficulty interpreting paragraph 3 of the GPL in this case, due to the unusual situation of using the Windows executable on a non-Windows platform. I'll include the paragraph from the GPL verbatim here for reference: |

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Anthony DeRobertis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030911 01:20]: On Monday, Sep 8, 2003, at 16:03 US/Eastern, Joe Moore wrote: Anthony DeRobertis said: The GPL prohibits us from distributing Debian on orange peels or probably even punch cards, because that's not on a medium customarily used for

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Anthony DeRobertis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030911 01:50]: On Monday, Sep 8, 2003, at 18:06 US/Eastern, Andrew Suffield wrote: The (intended) GFDL, on the other hand, explicitly prohibits us from distributing on certain things. No, it doesn't. It explicitly prohibits us from using technical

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Anthony DeRobertis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030911 02:05]: On Tuesday, Sep 9, 2003, at 07:12 US/Eastern, Mathieu Roy wrote: This has been discussed recently and it was so not clear. The poll held recently made it very clear. Who has changed their position since then? I. Former DFSG is not

Re: getting personalities out of the FSF-Debian argument

2003-09-11 Thread Dylan Thurston
On 2003-09-11, Jeremy Hankins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 23:38:16 -0700 (PDT), Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am hoping that I can deal with both organizations _as_ organizations. I think this very premise is shaky. No

Re: Attribution-ShareAlike License

2003-09-11 Thread Florian Weimer
John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This license is from the Creative Commons at http://creativecommons.org/license/results-one?license_code=by-saformat=text It is designed to apply to text or similar works (manuals, books, music, etc.) What do you think: DFSG free? It depends. If it is

Re: Attribution-ShareAlike License

2003-09-11 Thread David B Harris
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:30:22 +0200 Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This license is from the Creative Commons at http://creativecommons.org/license/results-one?license_code=by-saformat=text It is designed to apply to text or similar works

Re: Attribution-ShareAlike License

2003-09-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:58:36 -0400, David B Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:30:22 +0200 Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This license is from the Creative Commons at

Re: Attribution-ShareAlike License

2003-09-11 Thread Florian Weimer
David B Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It depends. If it is applied to, say, a PDF document, I wouldn't consider the result DFSG-free because PDF is not a format suitable for editing. Are you being sarcastic, pointing out the vagueness of the terms? Not really. The license simply

Re: Attribution-ShareAlike License

2003-09-11 Thread Brian T. Sniffen
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:58:36 -0400, David B Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:30:22 +0200 Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This license is from the Creative Commons at

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 07:37:48PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Monday, Sep 8, 2003, at 18:07 US/Eastern, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:15:09PM +0200, Alexandre Dulaunoy wrote: The subject under discussion is a license which prohibits distribution on DRM media.

Re: Attribution-ShareAlike License

2003-09-11 Thread Stephen Stafford
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:25:03PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: As have I, but I have had to resort to using non free tools on a non free OS to do so. Are you aware of free software that would allow me to directly edit PDF files? If not, then Florian may have a point. Umm, vi

Re: Attribution-ShareAlike License

2003-09-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 07:04:43PM +0100, Stephen Stafford wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:25:03PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: As have I, but I have had to resort to using non free tools on a non free OS to do so. Are you aware of free software that would allow me to directly

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-11 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 09:17:25PM -0400, Walter Landry wrote: One of the claims that the LaTeX people made was that it wasn't all that big of a burden. They acknowledged that it was annoying, but did not consider it a fatal defect. Much like the FSF position on invariant sections. Well,

Re: free source code which requires non-free tools to build (dscaler modules for tvtime)

2003-09-11 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 08:54:42PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 02:49:23AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: The intention of the statement as I understood it is that all binaries shipped must be buildable. Shipping source code that doesn't build on Debian doesn't

Re: free source code which requires non-free tools to build (dscaler modules for tvtime)

2003-09-11 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 03:18:14PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: | The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making | modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means | all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated |

Re: Attribution-ShareAlike License

2003-09-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:04:43 +0100, Stephen Stafford [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:25:03PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: As have I, but I have had to resort to using non free tools on a non free OS to do so. Are you aware of free software that would allow me to

Re: Preferred license for documentation

2003-09-11 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 06:08:38PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 04:55:40PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: Don't look now, but Creative Commons publishes somewhere around half a dozen licenses :-) (Though some are pretty blatantly non-free) (No ridiculously excessive

Re: Attribution-ShareAlike License

2003-09-11 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 05:04:48PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: If I were to try my own hand as an apprentice in the fine art of debian-legal license analysis, I might say the following grin: [...] Looks good, but don't forget that that is only phase one. Phase two involves a holistic reading of

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-11 Thread Claus Färber
Anthony DeRobertis schrieb/wrote: I think the way that the GFDL currently attempts to prohibit DRM is non-free. I can't think of a wording that would prohibit DRM and still be free. However, I don't think DFSG 1 says DRM must be allowed. DRM is incompatible with the goal of DFSG 1: It's just

Re: Attribution-ShareAlike License

2003-09-11 Thread Florian Weimer
Stephen Stafford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PDF is just plaintext (unless it uses encryption). Or compression. There are mostly plain-text PDF files, but they are quite unusual.

Re: free source code which requires non-free tools to build (dscaler modules for tvtime)

2003-09-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 02:36:13PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: Is Not an Emulator.) It may be worth asking the FSF. They have an email address for license questions, but I have forgotten what it is. [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's something along those lines, for sure. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-11 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:49:06AM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 14:49, Mathieu Roy wrote: I would say that the LPPL is not equal. Because it requires you to change the name of the files you modify and that's a direct problem when using LaTeX. Actually, one of the

Re: free source code which requires non-free tools to build (dscaler modules for tvtime)

2003-09-11 Thread David Turner
If you want to CC licensing@ from a thread in (say) debian-legal, here's what to do: 1. Mail only licensing@ 2. Take the autoreply it gives you, and extract the [gnu.org #] bit from the subject. 3. Put that bit in the subject of all mails CC'd to licensing@ This will prevent the creation of

Re: getting personalities out of the FSF-Debian argument

2003-09-11 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 02:48:26PM +, Dylan Thurston wrote: On 2003-09-11, Jeremy Hankins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be useful for debian-legal to designate a point-man, as it were, who could summarize discussions here and send the result to the FSF? It would introduce quite a

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-11 Thread Richard Stallman
- Maybe GNU should consider the option to provide its manuals in two versions, one without philosophical/political/historical texts, one as the current manuals. I considered this possibility in the 1980s, not as an option but rather as a potential problem. So

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-11 Thread Richard Stallman
Then, a license allowing to freely distribute a software or a modified version of this software in binary form only is free, but with a practical inconvenience. If you interpret my statements by stretching the term practical inconvenience to the point where it means nothing any

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not having source is a mere inconvenience; you can always decompile the program, read the assembly, translate it back into C, etc. Not being able to distribute the program is only an inconvenience; you can always rewrite it from

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The invariant sections don't restrict your freedom to use the technical material, verbatim or modified. They may cause practical inconvenience for some kinds of uses, but no more than that. The issue is basically the same as the issue of the

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Incompatibility of licenses does cause real obstacles to certain uses, and it might be worth changing the GFDL to solve that problem, if it can be done without big drawbacks. I'm going to think about this question. But the same issue arises for

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 05:44:47PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: The GFDL is not compatible with *ANY* free software license. How is this? Many non-copyleft licenses have no compatibility at all. Most licenses don't have the compatibility requirements of the GPL that forbid linking it with

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-11 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Maybe GNU should consider the option to provide its manuals in two versions, one without philosophical/political/historical texts, one as the current manuals. I considered this possibility in the 1980s, not as an