Re: 3rd Fellowship Raffle to attract more Fellows

2007-03-15 Thread Gareth Bowker
On 15/03/07, Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The process is that there is a random chance of more freedom at the end. You simply have no clue if these people will be able to liberate these devices. You have no knowledge about these developers are capable of. People have suggested

Re: gNewSense 1.0 - a binary blobless free software GNU/Linux - seeks help too

2006-11-03 Thread Gareth Bowker
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 04:20 +0100, Andreas K. Foerster wrote: Huh? As far as I can remember there were plans to make a GNUbuntu... What happened to that? That was a plan by Canonical, however RMS would not give permission to call it GNUbuntu for a variety of reasons and Mark Shuttleworth only

Re: Google Code Hosting

2006-10-27 Thread Gareth Bowker
On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 13:56 +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: Also, I'd avoid Savannah and GNA for now, unless you know you are happy with their policies (such as required early adoption of FDL, or HTTPS-only). Which are perfectly fine. Please refrain from spreading FUD. The

Re: Savannah rejects a project because it uses GPL

2006-02-13 Thread Gareth Bowker
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 04:44:45PM +, MJ Ray wrote: Does or does not ftp.debian.org carry non-free software? Does or does not ftp.gnu.org carry non-free software? Clearly, the answer is `Yes. No'. You are jumping into the realm of itsy bitsy semantics. Nonsense. You're playing

Re: FDL again, was: My concerns about GPLv3 process

2006-02-12 Thread Gareth Bowker
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 07:29:46PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: In theory, anyone can go and make Linux a non-free program, since it is simply impossible to enforce the license there. I suggest you read http://gpl-violations.org/ in order to see where the GPL has been