Re: Missing documentation for autoconf

2006-02-23 Thread olive
Anthony DeRobertis wrote: olive wrote: The social contract say also We will never make the system require the use of a non-free component. It is reasonable to think that the use of Debian requires the GFDL documentation. Even assuming the above it is reasonable is true[0], the following

Re: Missing documentation for autoconf

2006-02-22 Thread MJ Ray
Simon Huerlimann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I'll advice guys I introduced to Debian to also write such a mail once they get into similar situations, though. Unless they can add some new argument as to why a manual under an FDL-1.2 adware licence actually follows the DFSG, simply writing

Re: Missing documentation for autoconf

2006-02-22 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
olive wrote: The social contract say also We will never make the system require the use of a non-free component. It is reasonable to think that the use of Debian requires the GFDL documentation. Even assuming the above it is reasonable is true[0], the following does not hold: If Debian

Re: Missing documentation for autoconf

2006-02-21 Thread olive
Brian M. Carlson wrote: Please only quote those portions of the text to which you are replying. I have removed the text that you quoted. On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 09:46 +0400, olive wrote: The social contract say also We will never make the system require the use of a non-free component. It is

Re: Missing documentation for autoconf

2006-02-21 Thread Frank Küster
Patrick Herzig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20/02/06, Simon Huerlimann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) Simon, are you trolling? Not intentionally. (...) Another reason was the following paragraph from autoconfs README.Debian: No documentation, because the Debian project has decided that

Re: Missing documentation for autoconf

2006-02-21 Thread Brian M. Carlson
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 14:02 +0400, olive wrote: Brian M. Carlson wrote: Everything is always possible. Even understanding how a program works without source by disassembling it. If a free program depends on an non-free library you can reimplement the free library. ITYM the non-free

Re: Missing documentation for autoconf

2006-02-21 Thread Josh Triplett
Simon Huerlimann wrote: Hi Frank On Monday, 20. February 2006 18:08, Frank Küster wrote: Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you explain that you would like to continue to use GFDL'ed (or OPL'ed, for that matter) documentation, but refuse to add non-free to you sources list? Because

Re: Missing documentation for autoconf

2006-02-21 Thread Andrew Donnellan
What would be good would be a license field for DEB packages, as well as being able to include packages from other repositories based on the content of a field. e.g. Name: autoconf-doc ... License: gfdl and /etc/apt/preferences: License: gfdl

Missing documentation for autoconf

2006-02-20 Thread Simon Huerlimann
Hi I'm bitten by the removal of the autoconf documentation. I wanted to do some bugfixing in a configure.in script. But as I'm currently offline, I don't have access to the needed documentation. Well, then... No more FOSS development for today. Thanx for Debian, anyway! Gruss Simon

Re: Missing documentation for autoconf

2006-02-20 Thread Frank Küster
Simon Huerlimann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm bitten by the removal of the autoconf documentation. I wanted to do some bugfixing in a configure.in script. But as I'm currently offline, I don't have access to the needed documentation. Well, then... No more FOSS development for today.

Re: Missing documentation for autoconf

2006-02-20 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon Huerlimann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm bitten by the removal of the autoconf documentation. I wanted to do some bugfixing in a configure.in script. But as I'm currently offline, I don't have access to the needed documentation. Well, then...

Re: Missing documentation for autoconf

2006-02-20 Thread Simon Huerlimann
Hi Frank On Monday, 20. February 2006 18:08, Frank Küster wrote: Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon Huerlimann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm bitten by the removal of the autoconf documentation. I wanted to do some bugfixing in a configure.in script. But as I'm currently

Re: Missing documentation for autoconf

2006-02-20 Thread olive
Simon Huerlimann wrote: Hi Frank On Monday, 20. February 2006 18:08, Frank Küster wrote: Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon Huerlimann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm bitten by the removal of the autoconf documentation. I wanted to do some bugfixing in a configure.in script. But

Re: Missing documentation for autoconf

2006-02-20 Thread Brian M. Carlson
Please only quote those portions of the text to which you are replying. I have removed the text that you quoted. On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 09:46 +0400, olive wrote: The social contract say also We will never make the system require the use of a non-free component. It is reasonable to think that

Re: Missing documentation for autoconf

2006-02-20 Thread Patrick Herzig
On 20/02/06, Simon Huerlimann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) Simon, are you trolling? Not intentionally. (...) Another reason was the following paragraph from autoconfs README.Debian: No documentation, because the Debian project has decided that the GNU FDL is not an acceptable license for