Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-01 Thread Peter Samuelson
No substantive changes suggested, merely matters of style [Anthony Towns] (0) Summary Within the Debian community there has been a significant amount of concern about the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), and whether it is, in fact, a free license. This document attempts to

Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
I'd like to propose a few, uh, editorial amendments ;-) On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 03:02:04PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: --- Why the GNU Free Documentation License is not suitable for Debian main ~~ (0) Summary Within the

Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-01 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 04:25:37AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: No substantive changes suggested, merely matters of style ... Since this has already been seconded as-is here, I thought it best to comment here instead of making random unauthorised edits to a wiki. On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at

Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 09:51:52PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: [...] On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 11:28:16AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Perhaps retitle it to Why the current version of the GNU Free Documentation License is not suitable for Debian main Why the GNU Free

Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-01 Thread Joey Hess
I'm confused. Where does it say that we have to go through the GR process to issue a position statement for something the project has already decided on? -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Anthony Towns: Bcc'ed to -project, -legal and -private; followups to -vote please. It's been six months since the social contract changes that forbid non-free documentation went into effect [0], and we're still distributing GFDLed stuff in unstable [1]. I think we should get serious about

Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-01 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm confused. Where does it say that we have to go through the GR process to issue a position statement for something the project has already decided on? How do we know

Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm confused. Where does it say that we have to go through the GR process to issue a position statement for something the project has already decided on? How do we know the

Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm confused. Where does it say that we have to go through the GR process to issue a position statement for something the project has already decided on? How do we know the project has decided on it? Not a flippant question. That's felt like it's been

Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 13:30:32 -0800, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm confused. Where does it say that we have to go through the GR process to issue a position statement for something the project has already decided on? How do we know the project

Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I have taken the liberty of re-adding bits to the position statement I considered important, and I would be happy to hear reasons why they should not be in the position statement we publish. manoj On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 15:02:04 +1000, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au

Results for Declassification of debian-private list archives

2006-01-01 Thread Debian Project Secretary
Hi, Firstly, a belated Happy new year to all of you, gentle readers. Belated, since apparently a malfunctioning router ate my previous announcement, honest. At the end of voting, with 348 Ballots resulting in 305 votes from 298 developers, Establish declassification procedure

Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-01 Thread Anthony Towns
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm confused. Where does it say that we have to go through the GR process to issue a position statement for something the project has already decided on? 4. The Developers by way of General Resolution or election 4.1. Together, the Developers may:

Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-01 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 08:53:11PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: In addition to the simple restrictions of freedoms imposed by the Invariant Sections, they also cause practical problems: [...] This is a huge chunk of text for a dcoument that's already a bit too long to be easily