Re: Re: License: Perl considered harmful [Was: Python license]

2005-12-15 Thread Joe Wreschnig
, Python is a distribution of a language and standard library, and has many licenses (with potentially conflicting terms). In neither case is Under the same terms as Python acceptable. These arguments apply mutatis mutandis to most languages I'm aware of. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Re: Re: License: Perl considered harmful [Was: Python license]

2005-12-15 Thread Joe Wreschnig
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I'm not bothered if people put under the same terms as otherthing as we can do a reasonable substitution and I doubt anyone would have a problem with that, would they? I

Python license

2005-12-14 Thread Joe Wreschnig
on December 4th asking for clarification on this, but haven't gotten a response yet. Is this assesment accurate? Should I file bugs? -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

License: Perl considered harmful [Was: Python license]

2005-12-14 Thread Joe Wreschnig
draft of such a document, at http://people.debian.org/~piman/real-license.html . I'd appreciate suggestions, as well as more concrete cases where people have seen broken licensed under the same terms as foo statements. I'm sure licensing problems aren't restricted to only popular languages. :) -- Joe

profile.py has non-free license

2005-02-06 Thread Joe Wreschnig
, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Free Art License

2004-09-30 Thread Joe Wreschnig
of them I've written, but I borrowed the wording from something else (I suspect in Debian), and I've encouraged people to use this phrasing many times since. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Clarifying non-free parts of the GNU FDL

2004-09-21 Thread Joe Wreschnig
. If the author does this, then we don't even need exceptions to the GFDL, because the GPL alone is free. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Clarifying non-free parts of the GNU FDL

2004-09-21 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 15:55, Roger Leigh wrote: Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Specifically, would it be possible to 1) Allow storage/transmission on encrypted filesystems/links to counter the DRM restriction? 2) Not require forcing distribution of transparent copies with bulk

Re: Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?

2004-08-10 Thread Joe Wreschnig
of obligation in question, shall, is used in this clause and the dealings one. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Re: Conditions vs. (possibly inaccurate) notices (was Re: Pleasepass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?

2004-08-10 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 14:14, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Joe Wreschnig wrote: The X license also says permission is granted subject to the following conditions (note the plural); What X license are you reading? I'm reading http://www.x.org/Downloads_terms.html -- and it simply doesn't say

Re: Re: Conditions vs. (possibly inaccurate) notices (was Re: Pleasepass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?

2004-08-10 Thread Joe Wreschnig
be there. It is in the license that started this thread. thread (which presumably is somewhere in the X.org source, and will be in a future Debian X release). It is not found in the Open Group license. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?

2004-08-09 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 18:38, Branden Robinson wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:10:44AM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 09:31, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:03:33PM +, Jim Marhaus wrote: Debian Legal summary of the X-Oz License http

Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?

2004-08-09 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 17:44, Branden Robinson wrote: On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 02:33:16PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: Now, that just means it *was* consensus. If it is no longer consensus (and it better not be), we need to look at how such an egregious mistake happened, and how we can prevent

Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?

2004-08-09 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 17:57, Branden Robinson wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:20:47PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 11:15, Matthew Garrett wrote: The summary claims that clause 4 makes the license non-free. ...because we don't undestand what X-Oz means when they say

Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?

2004-08-09 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 03:31, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-08-09 05:35:10 +0100 Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clause 4 -- which you declared non-free in that thread *before* public conversations with X-Oz, and Brian declared non-free at the start of this thread -- is identical

Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?

2004-08-09 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 04:59, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-08-09 10:38:45 +0100 Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see the difference. I mean, I see the difference that one can be read as an assertion and the other can be read as a clause. But I don't see how that affects any

Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?

2004-08-09 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 11:02, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 03:31, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-08-09 05:35:10 +0100 Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clause 4 -- which you declared non-free in that thread *before* public

Re: summaries bugs, was: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?

2004-08-09 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 03:45, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-08-09 06:17:17 +0100 Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since February, -legal has had an official (as official as they get) document claiming that even without further annoyances from X-Oz that clause is non-free. Simon Law, who

Re: acceptable copyright?

2004-08-08 Thread Joe Wreschnig
him or her money. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?

2004-08-04 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 14:17, Ben Pfaff wrote: Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:15:09AM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: Brian, stop calling the MIT and 3 clause BSD licenses non-free. If anyone needed evidence that debian-legal has become overreaching

Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?

2004-08-04 Thread Joe Wreschnig
1. Don't Cc me, I am on the list. On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 14:59, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 02:33:16PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 13:35, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:15:09AM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: Brian, stop calling

Re: Free non-software stuff and what does it mean. [was Re: General Resolution: Force AMD64 into Sarge]

2004-08-03 Thread Joe Wreschnig
for games or other media-heavy packages, and so understand the work habits involved in such projects) are still considering all the issues, and we don't have a definitive answer yet. But your idea, and criteria, are stupid. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description

Re: Free non-software stuff and what does it mean. [was Re: General Resolution: Force AMD64 into Sarge]

2004-08-03 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 23:32, Ryan Underwood wrote: On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 11:23:37PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: opinions aren't going to work for policy. For non-program files such as multimedia or publications, there should be a master list of MIME types and a voted-on list

Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?

2004-08-03 Thread Joe Wreschnig
is, with the execption of whos names it protects, word-for-word identical. Am I missing something? Yes. Clause 3 is the GPL-incompatible non-free one. Clause 4 is standard boilerplate, found in many licenses (it's also superfluous, being written into copyright by default in US law). -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL

Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?

2004-08-03 Thread Joe Wreschnig
has become overreaching and useless, it's here. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?

2004-08-03 Thread Joe Wreschnig
with such restricted software. As much fun as it would be to describe X as not practical to work with, you're flat out wrong. Please do reading and research before continuing this thread. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?

2004-08-03 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 11:15, Matthew Garrett wrote: Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 09:31, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:03:33PM +, Jim Marhaus wrote: Debian Legal summary of the X-Oz License http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal

Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?

2004-08-03 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 15:02, Simon Law wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 05:15:16PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 09:31, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:03:33PM +, Jim Marhaus wrote: Debian Legal

Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?

2004-08-03 Thread Joe Wreschnig
by the people distributing software under this and other licenses. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?

2004-08-02 Thread Joe Wreschnig
the exact wording used in the XFree license) (and the standard MIT/X11 licence, mostly copyrighted to institutions/entities that no longer exist.) And the 3 clause BSD license. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Free non-software stuff and what does it mean. [was Re: General Resolution: Force AMD64 into Sarge]

2004-08-02 Thread Joe Wreschnig
, in the sense that you can apply filters, cut, etc, Vorbis files just as well as wavs. And while I might spend a long time fiddling with layers in an XCF, sometimes I merge them before I save, because I expect to never edit it again. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description

Re: Visualboy Advance question.

2004-06-23 Thread Joe Wreschnig
anything that could generate free .docs (no, AbiWord can't); I believe GCC can generate free Gameboy binaries. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?

2004-06-18 Thread Joe Wreschnig
on the outcome of GRs, it might change so that only the former class has to be removed. Either way, firmware not licensed under a GPL-compatible license needs to be removed. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?

2004-06-18 Thread Joe Wreschnig
the SC/DFSG and release with them. I think this is also a bad idea, but it's feasible. If 3) and 4) are copyright infringement, then we must remove them as well. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?

2004-06-18 Thread Joe Wreschnig
to me, and none of them resemble each other. On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 02:26:05PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: I agree with Michael Poole insofar as this message. Here's an attempt at an unbiased summary: There are four classes of firmware: [...] Current policy is that firmware types 1, 3

Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?

2004-06-18 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 15:54, Joe Wreschnig wrote: Primarily GR 2004-003, which just got its first CFV. By which of course I meant GR 2004-004, which is only *about* GR 2004-003. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?

2004-06-17 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 22:42, Michael Poole wrote: Joe Wreschnig writes: Step by step, tell me where you start to disagree: If I write a program that contains the entire ls source code as one large C string, and then prints it out, that is a derivative work of the ls source. I

Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?

2004-06-17 Thread Joe Wreschnig
rather than one with tens of thousands in its bank account. Why should we accept this argument for firmware when we didn't accept it for KDE? And wouldn't the small group with no money, unable to defend itself, make a much easier target? -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description

Re: How aggressively should non-distributability bugs be dealt with?

2004-06-16 Thread Joe Wreschnig
it for KDE, so why is it okay for the kernel? -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?

2004-06-16 Thread Joe Wreschnig
[Moving to -kernel and -legal instead of -kernel and -devel.] On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 12:56, Humberto Massa wrote: @ 16/06/2004 14:31 : wrote Joe Wreschnig : On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 09:41, Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 09:01:52PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: At best

Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?

2004-06-16 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 17:18, Michael Poole wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 03:21:38PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: [firmware as mere aggregation] Kernel copyright holders think otherwise, as do many other people. Out of curiosity, could you please show

Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?

2004-06-16 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 18:48, Thiemo Seufer wrote: Joe Wreschnig wrote: [snip] When you compile a kernel, the firmware is included in it. When you distribute that compiled binary, you're distributing a work derived from the kernel and the firmware. This is not a claim that the firmware

Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?

2004-06-16 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 18:32, Michael Poole wrote: Joe Wreschnig writes: On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 17:18, Michael Poole wrote: A little Google shows that Yggdrasil has made such an argument: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/04/msg00130.html Unfortunately for Mr. Richter, Linux

Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?

2004-06-16 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 21:59, Joe Wreschnig wrote: Step by step, tell me where you start to disagree: If I write a program that contains the entire ls source code as one large C string, and then prints it out, that is a derivative work of the ls source. If I write a program that contains

Warranty disclaimers and yelling

2004-05-18 Thread Joe Wreschnig
in the US, because of the implied warranties that are disclaimed by most licenses.) [0] http://www.norvig.com/license.html -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: moosic package contains obfuscated code

2004-05-05 Thread Joe Wreschnig
a C program's makefile generates an unreadable executable from multiple source files, Moosic's generates an unreadable base64 encoded set of Python bytecodes. If you apt-get source moosic, you get the individual source files for moosic, as you desire. There's no bug here. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL

Re: Fwd: reiser4 non-free?

2004-05-04 Thread Joe Wreschnig
will not walk out on stage (print messages during use of the software) to advertise your filesystem. We do follow that model, it does work, and it is the right thing to do. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: The QPL licence

2004-04-25 Thread Joe Wreschnig
but the copyright holder) cannot distribute applications linked against the library. I find that the authors that are aware of licensing issues, are also the kind who prefer not to grant GPL exceptions. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Claims on game concepts

2003-10-15 Thread Joe Wreschnig
but with different spells, and you're legally in the clear (that doesn't mean you won't be sued -- it means you're likely to win any such suit). -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: snippets

2003-10-01 Thread Joe Wreschnig
. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: GFDL

2003-09-30 Thread Joe Wreschnig
the Open Publication License (with no options exercised). If I looked harder I could find more. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-24 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 01:08, Mathieu Roy wrote: Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 14:13, MJ Ray wrote: On 2003-09-23 00:45:52 +0100 Andrew Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [2] Okay, this was just an extreme example. However: since I personally

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-23 Thread Joe Wreschnig
(or rarely, public software, freeware, or some other term), as do my friends and classmates. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: What does GFDL do?

2003-09-22 Thread Joe Wreschnig
requirement. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-18 Thread Joe Wreschnig
of programs embed documentation within them, and for IMO perfectly valid reasons. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-17 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 17:18, Dylan Thurston wrote: On 2003-09-16, Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your problem is here. Quote more carefully next time. Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the readers of this message: if you

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-16 Thread Joe Wreschnig
over this many times. debian-legal clearly believes that the GFDL does not meet the DFSG. Passing the DFSG is the *only* way anything can get into Debian. If you want something else to get into Debian, you need to propose definitions or guidelines on -project as a GR. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-15 Thread Joe Wreschnig
Indeed; you should read it thoroughly one of these days. It's an excellent example of the correct way to write a free *software* license, rather than a free program license, or free documentation license. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-12 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 17:59, Branden Robinson wrote: 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

Re: Robinson, Nerode and other free beer zealots was: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-12 Thread Joe Wreschnig
. Or rather, I hope no one does. Debian sure doesn't. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-11 Thread Joe Wreschnig
languages do not, or that was what I gathered from the discussion. It is, however, a direct problem in many other programming environments. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: old and new GNU documentation licenses, and the some of the manuals to which they apply

2003-09-09 Thread Joe Wreschnig
. Emacs? I don't even want to think about it. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-08 Thread Joe Wreschnig
? This is not a rhetorical question; I am honestly interested in both your opinion on this question, and your opinion on my answer to it above. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: in-depth information about how piman views publications vs. software vs. documentation

2003-08-28 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 21:50, MJ Ray wrote: On 2003-08-28 03:41:47 +0100 Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use documentation in the strictest sense here [...] free publication license. Sorry for the confusion. Documentation is not a subset of publication to you? A new twist

Re: SURVEY: Is the GNU FDL a DFSG-free license?

2003-08-28 Thread Joe Wreschnig
a few people are trying to keep in Debian regardless of their freeness, this ad hoc solution will be just as unpopular as removing all FDLd documentation from main. So we might as well do it right, and remove it all. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description

Re: GNU FDL makes difference files useless

2003-08-28 Thread Joe Wreschnig
*really* don't see the point of invariant sections. Either you can do a simple cipher of them and not infringe, or you have to use the highest quality fonts and printing methods available... -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Proposed addition to Debian web pages re: GNU FDL

2003-08-28 Thread Joe Wreschnig
, and he has made it very clear that he has no intention of changing the GNU FDL. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Documentation and Sarge's Release Critical Policy

2003-08-27 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 03:08, Jérôme Marant wrote: Quoting Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Software in Debian is 100% free. It doesn't prevent Debian to distribute something else than software. The social contract says Debian will remain 100% free software. Not that Debian's

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-27 Thread Joe Wreschnig
documentation *license*, doesn't mean it was the first to come up with free documentation *criteria*. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-27 Thread Joe Wreschnig
, Joe Wreschnig wrote: Just because the FSF is the first to release a free documentation *license*, doesn't mean it was the first to come up with free documentation *criteria*. Even that is not true. The OPL (Open Publication License), predates the GNU FDL. The GNU FDL was written in part

Re: Documentation and Sarge's Release Critical Policy

2003-08-26 Thread Joe Wreschnig
not share. So Debian doesn't have the freedom to *not* distribute GNU manuals? This makes no sense. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-25 Thread Joe Wreschnig
a non-issue. Your arguments get stupider with each new message of yours I read. Let's fix that. *plonk* -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-25 Thread Joe Wreschnig
we discussing FDL, clearly non-free software is still disributed by Debian. While Debian is working hard to maintain a complete free software operating system, clearly non-free software is being advocated by you, and published by the Free Programs-But-Not-Documentation Foundation. -- Joe

Re: Documentation and Sarge's Release Critical Policy

2003-08-25 Thread Joe Wreschnig
no matter what policy; I hear it's written so expertly that the author doesn't want anyone else perverting his vision of the code. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-25 Thread Joe Wreschnig
of Debian Free Documentation Guidelines outlining the necessary freedoms for documentation needs to be proposed and voted on. No one has yet done this, for various reasons. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Documentation and Sarge's Release Critical Policy

2003-08-25 Thread Joe Wreschnig
that it was the GPL that would be modified. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-25 Thread Joe Wreschnig
example is unimportant. Do you think this was the fault of open source movement (or those misinformed by their rhetoric), or perhaps was it someone concerned about disk or physical (e.g. number of printed pages) space? -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description

Re: [STATUS] SURVEY: Is the GNU FDL a DFSG-free license?

2003-08-24 Thread Joe Wreschnig
) already. Maintainers must review the source code they package. It also doesn't solve the main problem, which is that for some reason clearly non-free documentation (the GNU manuals) are being distributed in main. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [STATUS] SURVEY: Is the GNU FDL a DFSG-free license?

2003-08-24 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 04:54, Joe Wreschnig wrote: This is in policy (and the social contract) already. Maintainers must review the source code they package. I realized after I sent this that it doesn't convey what I actually meant. Maintainers must not put non-free software in main. The only

Re: Documentation and Sarge's Release Critical Policy

2003-08-24 Thread Joe Wreschnig
-- is this change to the GFDL happening? Does it actually address Debian's concerns, or are invariant sections and transparent formats going to remain? -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-24 Thread Joe Wreschnig
as it gets enough manpower. Since I see no way to reconcile GPL-compatibility and maintaining the invariance of invariant sections, should I believe this is not the case (and possibly never was)? -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Is the GNU FDL a DFSG-free license?

2003-08-24 Thread Joe Wreschnig
is like saying I can't integrate Windows source into the Linux kernel because it's a license incompatibility. Strictly, it is, but no one would ever call it that because the incompatibility is so great that we classify Windows as non-free and stop caring about it at all. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-24 Thread Joe Wreschnig
thankfully, you've hopefully guaranteed that no one else involved in any side of this debate will take you seriously. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Worries about GPLv3 (was Re: Documentation and Sarge's Release Critical Policy)

2003-08-24 Thread Joe Wreschnig
one that read it that way... Hopefully RMS clarifies this in his replies. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-24 Thread Joe Wreschnig
on distributing non-free documentation to accompany their free programs. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-24 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 19:46, Jacobo Tarrio wrote: O Domingo, 24 de Agosto de 2003 ás 19:36:20 -0500, Joe Wreschnig escribía: How about the GPL v2? The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it; binary or object code is anything

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-22 Thread Joe Wreschnig
, and that the source has to be in the *FSF's* preferred form for modification. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: SURVEY: Is the GNU FDL a DFSG-free license?

2003-08-21 Thread Joe Wreschnig
opinion. Part 2. Status of Respondent Please mark with an X the following item only if it is true. [ X ] I am a Debian Developer as described in the Debian Constitution as of the date on this survey. === CUT HERE === -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc

Re: A possible approach in solving the FDL problem

2003-08-13 Thread Joe Wreschnig
says, which kind of software is supported by Debian. If this software is supported by Debian, you should have no qualms about moving the FSF's manuals and RFCs there. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: OT: TV signals [Was: Inconsistencies in our approach]

2003-08-13 Thread Joe Wreschnig
signals are partly analogue, FYI...) Except for the newer digital TV broadcasts, completely analogue. ^^^ What? -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: OT: TV signals [Was: Inconsistencies in our approach]

2003-08-13 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 02:49, Joe Wreschnig wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 18:38, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 22:39, Nathanael Nerode wrote: That's an overly-expansive view of software. You would include anything that is digital in that description -- audio CDs, DVD

Re: A possible approach in solving the FDL problem

2003-08-13 Thread Joe Wreschnig
to be disputable on this list. Repeating over and over FDL seems to be disputable on this list does not make the FDL disputed, it just makes you contridictory. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: a minimal copyleft

2003-08-12 Thread Joe Wreschnig
Somewhat late in this... On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 14:03, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Tuesday, Aug 5, 2003, at 18:39 US/Eastern, Joe Wreschnig wrote: If I hack the hell out of some yacc/lex output and put that in my program, the yacc/lex files aren't the source anymore, the C code is. Same

Re: A possible approach in solving the FDL problem

2003-08-12 Thread Joe Wreschnig
of their lungs. Then we can all laugh at the terrible wording of this GR, as the free enough crowd's true goal - the inclusion of the FSF's manuals in main, regardless of freedom - comes to light. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Should our documentation be free? (Was Re: Inconsistencies in

2003-08-05 Thread Joe Wreschnig
(specifically, the stuff from the FSF) is clearly non-free. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: a minimal copyleft

2003-08-05 Thread Joe Wreschnig
versions of software (by which I mean any stream of bits) in a form that is convenient to modify. Amazingly, there are a lot of people that find MS Word documents, or assembler source, convenient to modify. Likewise, many people find SGML inconvenient. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: a minimal copyleft

2003-08-05 Thread Joe Wreschnig
. If possible, recommend that people use the GPL (or keep the dual-license). -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Inconsistencies in our approach

2003-08-05 Thread Joe Wreschnig
one, you can't remove it. -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: a minimal copyleft

2003-08-05 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 14:59, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Tuesday, Aug 5, 2003, at 05:19 US/Eastern, Joe Wreschnig wrote: IMO the GPL is purposefully vague on this point; if someone (not just the copyright holder) can show reasonably that they preferred a certain form for modification

Re: Should our documentation be free? (Was Re: Inconsistencies in

2003-08-05 Thread Joe Wreschnig
to get the opinion that the only thing in the GFDL I'm objecting to is invariant sections. There's a lot more, but invariant sections are the most odious to me.) -- Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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