Greetings, and thanks for this!
Adam Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 07:50, Camm Maguire wrote:
Greetings! Can anyone comment on the DFSG status of the material at:
ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/cl
? Please cc: me directly.
Hi Camm. This is an earlier
On 2004-06-22 16:56:33 +0100 Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=sfwr84z4dnq.fsf%40shell01.TheWorld.com
I am personally prepared to rely upon the Common Lisp community
understanding that they are public domain documents.
[...]
It would be nice for those
On 22 Jun 2004 11:56:33 -0400
Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Adam Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am personally prepared to rely upon the Common Lisp community
understanding that they are public domain documents.
Whether the Debian project is similarly prepared to accept the
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 20:09:52 -0400 Raul Miller wrote:
I will agree that you are not creating creative elements.
I see no reason to agree that you are not adding creative elements.
You might very well be adding someone else's creative elements
(depending on how your system is configured).
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 09:55:25 +1000 Matthew Palmer wrote:
Well, I thought that useless software is maybe not worth to
distribute at all. You seem to imply that a free, but useless
package must be placed in contrib rather than in main...
I implied nothing of the sort.
I'm sorry if I
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 19:55, Matthew Palmer wrote:
To re-quote policy, The Depends field should be used if
the depended-on package is required for the depending package to provide a
significant amount of functionality. Usefulness is a function of
functionality. No functionality, no utility
Evan Prodromou wrote:
In closing: I think it's a mistake to leave out Free Software just
because there's not Free Data for that software to work with.
While I agree that it is not necessarily required that a Free package
Depend on some piece of Free data for it to operate on, I do believe
that
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Dan Korostelev wrote:
Please, could someone explain me why visualboyadvance package is in
'contrib' section of Debian? It's free itself, it depends on free
libs, looks like it doesn't require any non-free stuff at
all. There's also free (as in freedom) roms for GBA in the
On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 03:56, Camm Maguire wrote:
It would be nice for those in the know/responsible for Debian's legal
understanding to put forth a consensus on this. Others have suggested
the possible usefulness of contacting others on the committee. I have
a call into one such person.
Evan Prodromou wrote:
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 19:02, Josh Triplett wrote:
While I agree that it is not necessarily required that a Free package
Depend on some piece of Free data for it to operate on, I do believe
that if there is _no_ Free data for the package to run with, and that
data is required
Josh Triplett wrote:
Evan Prodromou wrote:
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 19:02, Josh Triplett wrote:
While I agree that it is not necessarily required that a Free package
Depend on some piece of Free data for it to operate on, I do believe
that if there is _no_ Free data for the package to run with,
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