Re: Re: Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-04-28 Thread Coletti Massimo
Title: Re: Re: Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot I found the replies to my idea very instructive. I would like to make my idea more clear: - I believe that the wide choice of packages is one point of strength of Debian - I think that the general

Re: Re: Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-04-28 Thread Coletti Massimo
Title: Re: Re: Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot I found the replies to my idea very instructive. I would like to make my idea more clear: - I believe that the wide choice of packages is one point of strength of Debian - I think that the general

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-08 20:34]: And you seriously thing that a non-free.org, being setup by debian people in the wake of the non-free removal vote, will not be considered as having official endorsement, especially given the opinion of at least two of the three DPL

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-08 20:34]: And you seriously thing that a non-free.org, being setup by debian people in the wake of the non-free removal vote, will not be considered as having official endorsement, especially given the opinion of at least two of the three DPL

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:29:41AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm a little unclear on how a first class free operating system can be non-free. I guess that's the central problem here. Tell me again, what hardware are you running, and

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:05:31AM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-08 17:05:40 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A, yes, naturally. From my account on people.debian.org for example ? If the Suffield drop GR has passed, would non-free packages count as related to the project?

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:03:03PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:31:00AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Sven and Anthony seem to think it is part of Debian. A part of what Debian supports for its users, not a

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:29:41AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm a little unclear on how a first class free operating system can be non-free. I guess that's the central problem here. Tell me again, what hardware are you running, and

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-09 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-08 17:05:40 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A, yes, naturally. From my account on people.debian.org for example ? If the Suffield drop GR has passed, would non-free packages count as related to the project? Yeah, naturally. Unless you want to remove the non-free

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:05:31AM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-08 17:05:40 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A, yes, naturally. From my account on people.debian.org for example ? If the Suffield drop GR has passed, would non-free packages count as related to the project?

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Thomas Bushnell, BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-07 14:45]: I was promised that Debian would remain 100% free software. You want to break that promise? Who says so? Why would the keep of non-free somewhere (might it be nonfree.org or our pools) be a break of that promise? non-free is no

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:39:53PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-05 15:53:13 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, but wasn't one of the argument of dropping non-free the fact that that would put pressure on upstreams of non-free packages to change their licence. [...]

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 12:20:55PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:39:53PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-05 15:53:13 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, but wasn't one of the argument of dropping non-free the fact that that would put pressure

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 12:10:48PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 11:34:50AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: And more to the point, do you really think moving the non-free stuff out of the debian archive and onto a separate archive would be something more than a fiction to

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 09:41:29PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 02:37:34PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: It is not Debian's job to help you with everything in your life that you want to volunteer for. Debian has

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:58:25PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:33:56PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 01:57:35PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: A, yes ? And the fact that debian ressource would be used for setting this alternative

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-08 12:31:05 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:39:53PM +, MJ Ray wrote: I think that it may encourage improved support for non-Debian-hosted packages in general, including project-produced packages and backport projects. And ? Is this a good

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:04:37AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:39:06PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: The main point is that i don't master the subtelties of the english language enough to clearly appreciate the degree of offensiveness which is meant by it. And given

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:39:51PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Sorry, but the time i spent on packaging non-free stuff, this time i clearly see as part of the time i devote to debian. Not only does it include the real packaging, which is but a small fraction of the global time i devote to

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:59:55PM +, MJ Ray wrote: I want a proliferation of third-party free packages for debian. Really? Do you like low quality packages? Do you think the equivalent of rpmfind.net (hurl!) would be an asset to Debian users? You can probably tell that I don't, and that's

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-08 12:33:25 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And not always thanks to debian-legal, which wanted me to go to upstream about the QPLed emacs .el issue with the argument of : we should be polite to RMS. That is a gross misreporting of Brian Thomas Sniffen's advice to you,

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-08 13:15:02 + Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:59:55PM +, MJ Ray wrote: I want a proliferation of third-party free packages for debian. Really? Do you like low quality packages? Do you think the equivalent of rpmfind.net (hurl!) would be an

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-08 13:20:56 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I don't really care about negative effects on non-free software in general in this case. I support the Suffield drop GR to improve Debian, not to harm non-free. You don't care about it, or you willingly close your eyes to

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:59:55PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-08 12:31:05 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:39:53PM +, MJ Ray wrote: I think that it may encourage improved support for non-Debian-hosted packages in general, including

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:21:47PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-08 12:33:25 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And not always thanks to debian-legal, which wanted me to go to upstream about the QPLed emacs .el issue with the argument of : we should be polite to RMS. That is

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:01:09PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:39:51PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Sorry, but the time i spent on packaging non-free stuff, this time i clearly see as part of the time i devote to debian. Not only does it include the real packaging,

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-08 13:27:55 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:21:47PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-08 12:33:25 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: about the QPLed emacs .el issue with the argument of : we should be polite to RMS. That is a gross

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:37:31PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-08 13:20:56 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I don't really care about negative effects on non-free software in general in this case. I support the Suffield drop GR to improve Debian, not to harm non-free.

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-08 13:51:40 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:37:31PM +, MJ Ray wrote: They are drivers for hardware which have the bug of not being free software, but I think you knew that already. Yeah, and what do you plan to do to help fixing that ? And do

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-08 14:12:12 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:00:19PM +, MJ Ray wrote: You did write it exactly like that, or someone spoofed your email. Yeah, remember now. Do you want to see the full caps email from branden, where he all but told me i was

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:00:19PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-08 13:27:55 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:21:47PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-08 12:33:25 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: about the QPLed emacs .el issue with the

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-08 14:18:15 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A, but you have no problem in having me do more work in order to maintain my non-free package, which is currently needed for the rest of my debian work. Thanks. Do we require debian developers to have ADSL now? -- To

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:16:42PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-08 13:51:40 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:37:31PM +, MJ Ray wrote: They are drivers for hardware which have the bug of not being free software, but I think you knew that already.

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:16:42PM +, MJ Ray wrote: Sorry, I don't believe that we're boxed in yet. Even meeting a brick wall just means the route became very steep or longer. You mention possible actions to fix it, which are hard, but that doesn't mean it's not worth trying them. I

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:41:20PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-08 14:24:13 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:16:42PM +, MJ Ray wrote: [...] I think there are other possible ones, but you dismissed them previously. Hard and possibly illegal.

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 03:46:51PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: And BTW, i was refering in me having to help setup non-free.org or some other third party archive in order to be able to distribute my packages, not to speak about BTS support and such. Come on, please. On the one hand, you seem to

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:51:40PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: I have many times lobbyed ATI and others to get access to the specs which would allow to write free drivers for those, but without success, and i have come to the conclusion that nothing short of the full foss community moving

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-08 14:49:28 + Gerfried Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-08 13:37]: At present, I have no such need for that hardware. If you do, then I think you should help to fix that bug [...] Ah the old every person who has a problem is Alan Cox anyway so

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 04:26:48PM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 03:18:15PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:16:42PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-08 13:51:40 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 04:10:21PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 03:46:51PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: And BTW, i was refering in me having to help setup non-free.org or some other third party archive in order to be able to distribute my packages, not to speak about BTS

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 04:24:07PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:51:40PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: I have many times lobbyed ATI and others to get access to the specs which would allow to write free drivers for those, but without success, and i have come to the

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-08 15:36:38 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 04:10:21PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: you will be unable to distribute *your* packages once non-free vanishes? Well, this is what the non-free removal proponent tell me i should do, is it not ? It's what

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:35:37 +0100, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: I'm a little unclear on how a first class free operating system can be non-free. I guess that's the central problem here. Tell me again, what hardware are you running, and what licence does your BIOS have ? I

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm a little unclear on how a first class free operating system can be non-free. I guess that's the central problem here. Tell me again, what hardware are you running, and what licence does your BIOS have ? I seriously doubt it is free. It's not

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, but it could. There are at least two free bios implementation projects that i know of, openbios, and the other using the kernel as the bios. You seem to think my goal is to eradicate non-free software, or to never touch it, or something like that.

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This would mean, not having a relative small, and negatively viewed non-free repository on the debian archive, but an officially recognized proliferation of third party non-free packages we have no control on. If people want that, they can have it now.

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:31:47AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This would mean, not having a relative small, and negatively viewed non-free repository on the debian archive, but an officially recognized proliferation of third party non-free

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Raul Miller
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:31:00AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Sven and Anthony seem to think it is part of Debian. A part of what Debian supports for its users, not a part of the Debian OS. You have a problem with that? -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And you seriously thing that a non-free.org, being setup by debian people in the wake of the non-free removal vote, will not be considered as having official endorsement, especially given the opinion of at least two of the three DPL candidates on this

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:31:00AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Sven and Anthony seem to think it is part of Debian. A part of what Debian supports for its users, not a part of the Debian OS. Many of those users then think it's part of the Debian

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Raul Miller
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:31:00AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Sven and Anthony seem to think it is part of Debian. Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A part of what Debian supports for its users, not a part of the Debian OS. On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:03:03PM -0800, Thomas

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 00:21, MJ Ray wrote: Remember that debian-legal is a mailing list of many developers and other contributors, not a single person. Well, actually, sometimes if you skip the posts of a single person (which can at times be more than every second new post), it does appear

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 01:00, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-08 13:27:55 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And seriously, but does a we should stay polite to RMS strike you as a serious argument you can bring to upstream when discussing this issue. There was a lot more detail beyond

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Raul Miller
Are you familiar with the concept of an ambiguous phrase? On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:46:58PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Sure, but the Social Contract wasn't designed to place non-free into an ambiguous relationship with Debian, but to spell out exactly what the relationship is. As I

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Raul Miller
If we are Debian, then the use of terms such as we or our used when describing our relationship to non-free fit that description. On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:02:40PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: No, look at what we do. We have created a non-free FTP area. I guess you're just

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you familiar with the concept of an ambiguous phrase? Sure, but the Social Contract wasn't designed to place non-free into an ambiguous relationship with Debian, but to spell out exactly what the relationship is. As I read it, it's clear: we will put

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is no text of the social contract which applies the word Debian to non-free under any description at all, but rather, serves to mention both only to make as clear as possible that non-free is not part of Debian, using those very words. I

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Thomas Bushnell, BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-07 14:45]: I was promised that Debian would remain 100% free software. You want to break that promise? Who says so? Why would the keep of non-free somewhere (might it be nonfree.org or our pools) be a break of that promise? non-free is no

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:39:53PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-05 15:53:13 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, but wasn't one of the argument of dropping non-free the fact that that would put pressure on upstreams of non-free packages to change their licence. [...]

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 12:20:55PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:39:53PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-05 15:53:13 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, but wasn't one of the argument of dropping non-free the fact that that would put pressure

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 12:10:48PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 11:34:50AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: And more to the point, do you really think moving the non-free stuff out of the debian archive and onto a separate archive would be something more than a fiction to

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 09:41:29PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 02:37:34PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: It is not Debian's job to help you with everything in your life that you want to volunteer for.

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-08 12:31:05 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:39:53PM +, MJ Ray wrote: I think that it may encourage improved support for non-Debian-hosted packages in general, including project-produced packages and backport projects. And ? Is this a

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:04:37AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:39:06PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: The main point is that i don't master the subtelties of the english language enough to clearly appreciate the degree of offensiveness which is meant by it. And given

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:39:51PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Sorry, but the time i spent on packaging non-free stuff, this time i clearly see as part of the time i devote to debian. Not only does it include the real packaging, which is but a small fraction of the global time i devote to

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:59:55PM +, MJ Ray wrote: I want a proliferation of third-party free packages for debian. Really? Do you like low quality packages? Do you think the equivalent of rpmfind.net (hurl!) would be an asset to Debian users? You can probably tell that I don't, and that's

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-08 13:15:02 + Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:59:55PM +, MJ Ray wrote: I want a proliferation of third-party free packages for debian. Really? Do you like low quality packages? Do you think the equivalent of rpmfind.net (hurl!) would be

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-08 13:20:56 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I don't really care about negative effects on non-free software in general in this case. I support the Suffield drop GR to improve Debian, not to harm non-free. You don't care about it, or you willingly close your eyes

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:59:55PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-08 12:31:05 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:39:53PM +, MJ Ray wrote: I think that it may encourage improved support for non-Debian-hosted packages in general, including

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:21:47PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-08 12:33:25 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And not always thanks to debian-legal, which wanted me to go to upstream about the QPLed emacs .el issue with the argument of : we should be polite to RMS. That is

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:01:09PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:39:51PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Sorry, but the time i spent on packaging non-free stuff, this time i clearly see as part of the time i devote to debian. Not only does it include the real packaging,

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-08 13:27:55 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:21:47PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-08 12:33:25 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: about the QPLed emacs .el issue with the argument of : we should be polite to RMS. That is a gross

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:37:31PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-08 13:20:56 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I don't really care about negative effects on non-free software in general in this case. I support the Suffield drop GR to improve Debian, not to harm non-free.

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-08 13:51:40 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:37:31PM +, MJ Ray wrote: They are drivers for hardware which have the bug of not being free software, but I think you knew that already. Yeah, and what do you plan to do to help fixing that ? And

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-08 14:12:12 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:00:19PM +, MJ Ray wrote: You did write it exactly like that, or someone spoofed your email. Yeah, remember now. Do you want to see the full caps email from branden, where he all but told me i

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:00:19PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-08 13:27:55 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:21:47PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-08 12:33:25 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: about the QPLed emacs .el issue with the

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-08 14:18:15 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A, but you have no problem in having me do more work in order to maintain my non-free package, which is currently needed for the rest of my debian work. Thanks. Do we require debian developers to have ADSL now?

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:16:42PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-08 13:51:40 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:37:31PM +, MJ Ray wrote: They are drivers for hardware which have the bug of not being free software, but I think you knew that already.

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-08 14:24:13 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:16:42PM +, MJ Ray wrote: [...] I think there are other possible ones, but you dismissed them previously. Hard and possibly illegal. If you mean reverse-engineering the devices, I think even the

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:16:42PM +, MJ Ray wrote: Sorry, I don't believe that we're boxed in yet. Even meeting a brick wall just means the route became very steep or longer. You mention possible actions to fix it, which are hard, but that doesn't mean it's not worth trying them. I

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:35:37PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-08 14:18:15 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A, but you have no problem in having me do more work in order to maintain my non-free package, which is currently needed for the rest of my debian work. Thanks. Do

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-08 14:43:45 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, but i would be barred from entering the US forever after. Aren't you already? ;-) Yeah, but at least the threat to remove their package from non-free would have some weight. If you currently threaten your upstreams

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:35:37PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-08 14:18:15 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A, but you have no problem in having me do more work in order to maintain my non-free package, which is currently needed for the rest of my debian work. Thanks. Do

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-08 13:37]: At present, I have no such need for that hardware. If you do, then I think you should help to fix that bug, instead of writing to us about how unfair it is that some of us don't want to support a bug of someone else's driver any more. Ah the

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 03:46:51PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: And BTW, i was refering in me having to help setup non-free.org or some other third party archive in order to be able to distribute my packages, not to speak about BTS support and such. Come on, please. On the one hand, you seem to

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:51:40PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: I have many times lobbyed ATI and others to get access to the specs which would allow to write free drivers for those, but without success, and i have come to the conclusion that nothing short of the full foss community moving

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread David Weinehall
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 03:18:15PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:16:42PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-08 13:51:40 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:37:31PM +, MJ Ray wrote: They are drivers for hardware which have the

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-08 14:49:28 + Gerfried Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-08 13:37]: At present, I have no such need for that hardware. If you do, then I think you should help to fix that bug [...] Ah the old every person who has a problem is Alan Cox anyway so

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 03:04:08PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-08 14:43:45 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, but i would be barred from entering the US forever after. Aren't you already? ;-) Yeah, but at least the threat to remove their package from non-free would

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 04:26:48PM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 03:18:15PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:16:42PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-03-08 13:51:40 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 04:10:21PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 03:46:51PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: And BTW, i was refering in me having to help setup non-free.org or some other third party archive in order to be able to distribute my packages, not to speak about BTS

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 04:24:07PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:51:40PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: I have many times lobbyed ATI and others to get access to the specs which would allow to write free drivers for those, but without success, and i have come to the

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-03-08 15:36:38 + Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 04:10:21PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: you will be unable to distribute *your* packages once non-free vanishes? Well, this is what the non-free removal proponent tell me i should do, is it not ? It's

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:35:37 +0100, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: I'm a little unclear on how a first class free operating system can be non-free. I guess that's the central problem here. Tell me again, what hardware are you running, and what licence does your BIOS have ? I

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 04:47:39PM +, MJ Ray wrote: man dpkg-scanpackages, it's really not that hard if it is about your packages alone. Limited free webspace is quite abundant these days. A, yes, naturally. From my account on people.debian.org for example ? If the Suffield drop GR has

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:56:48PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: Em Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:35:37 +0100, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: I'm a little unclear on how a first class free operating system can be non-free. I guess that's the central problem here. Tell me again,

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm a little unclear on how a first class free operating system can be non-free. I guess that's the central problem here. Tell me again, what hardware are you running, and what licence does your BIOS have ? I seriously doubt it is free. It's not

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, but it could. There are at least two free bios implementation projects that i know of, openbios, and the other using the kernel as the bios. You seem to think my goal is to eradicate non-free software, or to never touch it, or something like that.

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Gerfried Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Thomas Bushnell, BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-07 14:45]: I was promised that Debian would remain 100% free software. You want to break that promise? Who says so? Why would the keep of non-free somewhere (might it be nonfree.org or our

Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This would mean, not having a relative small, and negatively viewed non-free repository on the debian archive, but an officially recognized proliferation of third party non-free packages we have no control on. If people want that, they can have it now.

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