Re: GPL X BSD

2013-11-24 Thread Robert Millan
On 24/11/2013 06:02, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: Take that up with FreeBSD Project, the upstream of the FreeBSD kernel. There is nothing that Debian can do here. Debian simply takes upstreams and puts them together in a usable binary distribution. Furthermore, we have very good relation with

Fwd: Re: GPL X BSD

2013-11-24 Thread brunomaximom
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is official Debian port, and thus Debian packages and packagers support kFreeBSD. Sorry, but that's not what I see...I dont see any interest from Gnome maintainers for kFreeBSD for example, just throw the job for kFreeBSD porters =/. Debian is not a GNU project, and does

Re: Fwd: Re: GPL X BSD

2013-11-24 Thread Robert Millan
On 24/11/2013 16:49, brunomaxi...@openmailbox.org wrote: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is official Debian port, and thus Debian packages and packagers support kFreeBSD. Sorry, but that's not what I see...I dont see any interest from Gnome maintainers for kFreeBSD for example, just throw the job for

Re: Fwd: Re: GPL X BSD

2013-11-24 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, On 24/11/13 22:38, brunomaxi...@openmailbox.org wrote: Look the changelog: http://ftp-master.metadata.debian.org/changelogs//main/g/gnome-shell/gnome-shell_3.8.4-5_changelog Now Gnome Shell and GDM can run for us? I don't think it has been tested yet in jessie/sid, but in theory they

Re: Fwd: Re: GPL X BSD

2013-11-24 Thread pdb
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#SoftwareLicenses FreeBSD license http://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=License:FreeBSD (#FreeBSD) http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#FreeBSD This is the

GPL X BSD

2013-11-23 Thread brunomaximom
Hi folks, What about relicensing of the kFreeBSD? BSD license is permissive, I think BSD doesn't match with GNU, because of that why not relicence the kFreeBSD under GPL? this can result in a greater approval of the GNU project. And why the Debian packagers dont support kFreeBSD and remain

Re: GPL X BSD

2013-11-23 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 24 November 2013 02:02, brunomaxi...@openmailbox.org wrote: Hi folks, What about relicensing of the kFreeBSD? BSD license is permissive, I think BSD doesn't match with GNU, because of that why not relicence the kFreeBSD under GPL? this can result in a greater approval of the GNU project.

Re: GPL X BSD

2013-11-23 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 24 November 2013 04:06, brunomaxi...@openmailbox.org wrote: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is official Debian port, and thus Debian packages and packagers support kFreeBSD. Sorry, but that's not what I see...I dont see any interest from Gnome maintainers for kFreeBSD for example, just throw the job