Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Source packages

2003-12-17 Thread Mike Sensney
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 09:05 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What was bothering me, in part were two issues. You have talked this to death. Please stop. If you have further doubts about Mitel's compliance with the GPL I suggest you hire yourself a lawyer and have him/her talk to Mitel's

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Announce rdiff-backup HowTo - Initial

2003-12-17 Thread Michiel Blotwijk
Your how-to states that 'This work' is being released under the following license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/ Is this a valid license? for almost everything is GPL, except for the how-to itself. Apparently the cc license is ment for creative (=art) work, whereas the

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] GPL

2003-12-17 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 03:34:48PM +1000, Peter Lambert wrote: Charlie, Are the sources Mitel are releasing sufficient to build the unsupported developer release 6.0 ISO when compiled with other open, readily available sources ?. If there are Mitel proprietary sources involved, are these

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: irc channel #contribs.org on freenode.n et

2003-12-17 Thread Courchesne, Andre
What I find anoying is that I must either do a reply-to and change the to address or do a reply-to-all and delete the personal adress... Also I beleive there must be a lot of reply lost because people only do reply and the information only goes to the sender and not the list... I'll look at the

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Source packages

2003-12-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 17/12/03 Les Mikesell did say: Actually the GPL applies to any derived work that is subsequently distributed regardless of whether you modify the original or not. Many people have far too loose an interpretation of that. Any code ever written in GNU Emacs, a GPL'd product, is not a derived

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] GPL

2003-12-17 Thread dan_york
Bruce, Thanks for this message: What is this persistent rumour about proprietary licenses? The Mitel and E-smith sites both make it quite clear that the Developer release is GPL and that any proprietary stuff is in the supported, commercial release. Has anybody ever produced any evidence

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Reply to List option (was Re: [e-smith-devi nfo] Re: irc channel #contribs.org on freenode.net)

2003-12-17 Thread Courchesne, Andre
Unfortunatly right now I'm getting my maind at work in a corporate environment that uses a MS-Exchange server... And I can not have external pop/smtp/web mail access. BTW same thing with IRC which is strictly blocked at the firewall level (no they are not using an SME :-(( ) -Original

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Reply to List option (was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: irc channel #contribs.org on freenode.net)

2003-12-17 Thread Nick Ramsay
On 18 Dec 2003 at 1:27, Rasjid Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 18 December 2003 01:08, Courchesne, Andre wrote: What I find anoying is that I must either do a reply-to and change the to address or do a reply-to-all and delete the personal adress... Also I beleive there must be

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Reply to List option (was Re: [e-smith-devi nfo] Re: irc channel #contribs.org on freenode.net)

2003-12-17 Thread Courchesne, Andre
Ok, long enough thread for something that has nothing to do with development... I'll work the way my mail software wants to work and stop complaining about it. ANdre -Original Message- From: Nick Ramsay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 10:44 AM To: [EMAIL

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Reply to List option (was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: irc channel #contribs.org on freenode.net)

2003-12-17 Thread Jeff Coleman
Just fyi, if you hit reply-all on the posts at lists.contribs.org, you will NOT receive duplicates. The Mailman software is smart enough to cut out the dupes. -jeff -Original Message- From: Courchesne, Andre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 9:00 AM To:

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] reply-to-all (was Re: irc channel #contribs.org on freenode.net)

2003-12-17 Thread John Cusick
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 10:13, Charlie Brady wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Courchesne, Andre wrote: ... That's a matter of education. It's not a bad idea for every email sender to be aware of who they are sending messages to. I couldn't agree more Charlie, every mailing list is handled

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Reply to List option (was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: irc channel #contribs.org on freenode.net)

2003-12-17 Thread Charlie Brady
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Jeff Coleman wrote: Just fyi, if you hit reply-all on the posts at lists.contribs.org, you will NOT receive duplicates. The Mailman software is smart enough to cut out the dupes. That's not possible Jeff. Mailman won't even see replies sent directly to the original

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Reply to List option

2003-12-17 Thread Jeff Coleman
Thanks. I thought I was going nuts : (maybe I am) -jeff I stand corrected. Mailman can parse Cc: and To: headers, and can choose not to send messages to those recipients. That means that Mailman doesn't guarantee that everyone on its list is sent a copy of the message, but it does

[e-smith-devinfo] SRPMS vs RPMS discrepancy ?

2003-12-17 Thread Courchesne, Andre
Hi, First, I know 5.5 is outdated and maybe noone will want to answer questions on it. But I'm shooting anyway... By looking at the directories of SRPMS and RPMS, I found the following discrepancy: SRPMS: e-smith-release-5.5beta9-01 RPMS: e-smith-release-5.5-03

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] SRPMS vs RPMS discrepancy ?

2003-12-17 Thread Courchesne, Andre
Sounds good for me. I had not read the release notes inside the source rpm yet (shame on me). But shoudn't the source package name change automatically when doing the rpm -bs or rpm -ba ? -Original Message- From: Rich Lafferty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003