All clear (was Re: Please hold off on new package updates for a while)

2012-10-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:40:53PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:50:36PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Something funny seems to be going on with the mirrors. A number have >>been out of date for a day or more. >> >>Please don't upload any packages for 24 hours s

Re: LICENSE: base-files and use of CC0 - public domain

2012-10-26 Thread David Sastre Medina
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:26:59PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On 10/25/2012 11:49 AM, Jari Aalto wrote: > > > >Neither OSI, nor FSF recommend use of "public domain" for Open Source > >software. > > I think you should total up the list of recommendations the FSF has > made over the years, and dec

Re: LICENSE: base-files and use of CC0 - public domain

2012-10-26 Thread Warren Young
On 10/25/2012 11:49 AM, Jari Aalto wrote: Neither OSI, nor FSF recommend use of "public domain" for Open Source software. I think you should total up the list of recommendations the FSF has made over the years, and decide if you really want to be constrained use only things that make FSF hap

Re: Please hold off on new package updates for a while

2012-10-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:50:36PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >Something funny seems to be going on with the mirrors. A number have >been out of date for a day or more. > >Please don't upload any packages for 24 hours so that I can assess the >problem. I'd like to keep the moratorium going

Re: LICENSE: base-files and use of CC0 - public domain

2012-10-26 Thread Jari Aalto
On 2012-10-26 09:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote: | | Despite all the arguments, here's a question: If PD is such a bad idea, | why is Fedora's setup package, which provides much the same service | as our base-files package, PD licensed as well? Perhaps it was done and forgotten. World is diferent tod

Re: LICENSE: base-files and use of CC0 - public domain

2012-10-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 26 09:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 26 02:27, Jari Aalto wrote: > > 2012-10-26 00:20 David Sastre Medina > > > > On 2012-10-25 23:20, David Sastre Medina wrote: > > | > https://github.com/dsastrem/base-files.git > > | > > | Most probably, a wrong assumption on my side. > > > > No wo

base-file: patches ORIGINAL_PATH, PS1, LC_ALL (was LICENSE: base-files and use of CC0)

2012-10-26 Thread Jari Aalto
2012-10-26 08:57 Achim Gratz : | David Sastre Medina writes: | | > The only outstanding issue I can think of right now, would be | > to revert this change: | > | > -PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:${PATH}" | > +ORIGINAL_PATH="${PATH}" | > +PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin" | > | > The details about this

Re: LICENSE: base-files and use of CC0 - public domain

2012-10-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 26 02:27, Jari Aalto wrote: > 2012-10-26 00:20 David Sastre Medina > > On 2012-10-25 23:20, David Sastre Medina wrote: > | > https://github.com/dsastrem/base-files.git > | > | Most probably, a wrong assumption on my side. > > No worries, it caught my attention as it was an unusual choice,