Re: FYI: Savannah forces new projects to use GFDL for documentation

2006-02-11 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:25:03 +1100 Matthew Palmer wrote: My opinion of FSF people is descending rapidly here. Dropping down, down, down... :-( Revising history is never a good sign. Agreed fully. _1984_ by George Orwell comes to mind (where the Minitrue continuously rewrites history). --

Re: FYI: Savannah forces new projects to use GFDL for documentation

2006-02-11 Thread Sebastian Wieseler
Hello Francesco Poli, hello list, I should clarify things here... You wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:25:03 +1100 Matthew Palmer wrote: My opinion of FSF people is descending rapidly here. Dropping down, down, down... :-( Don't think of all people in the FSF. Thanks. Revising history is

Re: FYI: Savannah forces new projects to use GFDL for documentation

2006-02-11 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Hey Gymnasist, be advised that if Wallace http://www.terekhov.de/Wallace_v_Red_Hat_2nd_ANSWER.pdf won't succeed in US, I'll invite him to Germany. http://www.allenovery.com/asp/pdf/gercomplaw.pdf -- Rules on distribution Basics Vertical relationships between market participants operating

Re: FYI: Savannah forces new projects to use GFDL for documentation

2006-02-11 Thread Sebastian Wieseler
Hello. Glenn Maynard wrote: On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 10:14:59PM +0100, Sebastian Wieseler wrote: So you should respect me and don't post the caches of my sites anywhere. Admitting an error (or a misunderstanding, a misspeaking, or a good old brain fart) is something people can respect;

Re: FYI: Savannah forces new projects to use GFDL for documentation

2006-02-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 11:26:17PM +0100, Sebastian Wieseler wrote: So you should respect me and don't post the caches of my sites anywhere. MY blog and I can post what I want to post. I don't care about your opinion. Very well, but respect me and I don't care what you think seem at odds. :)

Re: FYI: Savannah forces new projects to use GFDL for documentation

2006-02-11 Thread MJ Ray
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, it seems this was a bit premature. The Savannah admin who was looking at my project registration wrote to me: I think it was useful to post here (all times UTC): Wed 19:05 kickino decides that GPL-only is not allowed Wed 21:40 driconf application is cancelled Thu

Re: FYI: Savannah forces new projects to use GFDL for documentation

2006-02-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Patrick Herzig wrote: FYI, Here's the full text: [...] http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:aaX81KBybOIJ:blog.kickino.org/+gfdl+compatible+license+savannahhl=engl=usct=clnkcd=2 is the google cache, http://rzlab.ucr.edu/debian/savannah_gnu_org_policy.html is a mirror of it

Re: FYI: Savannah forces new projects to use GFDL for documentation

2006-02-10 Thread Felix Kühling
Hmm, it seems this was a bit premature. The Savannah admin who was looking at my project registration wrote to me: quote The decision about the licenses of the project documentations was a bit prematurate and concerned discussions are in progress. So nothing has changed until now. If you are

FYI: Savannah forces new projects to use GFDL for documentation

2006-02-09 Thread Felix Kühling
Hi, I was trying to get my project DRIconf hosted at Savannah (Non-GNU) and found out that as of recently Savannah requires all new projects to license their documentation under the GFDL, which we all know, Debian considers non-free. Dual-licensing under GFDL and GPL is apparently still ok. See

Re: FYI: Savannah forces new projects to use GFDL for documentation

2006-02-09 Thread Rich Walker
Felix Kühling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I was trying to get my project DRIconf hosted at Savannah (Non-GNU) and found out that as of recently Savannah requires all new projects to license their documentation under the GFDL, which we all know, Debian considers non-free. Dual-licensing

Re: FYI: Savannah forces new projects to use GFDL for documentation

2006-02-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 12:04:22PM -0500, Felix Kühling wrote: I was trying to get my project DRIconf hosted at Savannah (Non-GNU) and found out that as of recently Savannah requires all new projects to license their documentation under the GFDL, which we all know, Debian considers non-free.

Re: FYI: Savannah forces new projects to use GFDL for documentation

2006-02-09 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2006-02-09, Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What really got me saying whoa! though is the blog post linked from the ticket comments -- the fourth paragraph seems to say that Savannah changed it's policy because Debian doesn't think the GFDL is DFSG-free. Worrying, if true. The

Re: FYI: Savannah forces new projects to use GFDL for documentation

2006-02-09 Thread Rich Walker
Sune Vuorela [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 2006-02-09, Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What really got me saying whoa! though is the blog post linked from the ticket comments -- the fourth paragraph seems to say that Savannah changed it's policy because Debian doesn't think the GFDL is

Re: FYI: Savannah forces new projects to use GFDL for documentation

2006-02-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 09:43:42PM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2006-02-09, Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What really got me saying whoa! though is the blog post linked from the ticket comments -- the fourth paragraph seems to say that Savannah changed it's policy because Debian

Re: FYI: Savannah forces new projects to use GFDL for documentation

2006-02-09 Thread Patrick Herzig
FYI, Here's the full text: Tue Jan 31 23:13:51 CET 2006 Savannah.GNU.org switched its policy Today Savannah.GNU.org switched its policy about the licenses of the hosted projects. Since today every project must release its documentation under the GNU Free Documentation License or any other