Re: Bug#212525: Package contains non-free GNU FDL material

2003-09-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:12:06 -0400, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I understand that debian-legal acts in an advisory capacity, and is >> very useful to maintainers who need advice on licensing issues. And >> I shall stipulate that the

Re: Bug#212525: Package contains non-free GNU FDL material

2003-09-27 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 09:15:13AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >I am closing the bug again. You can, or course, call for the > > tech ctte to override this, or a GR, or get me removed from the > > project, as you wish. > > I fully support y

Re: Bug#212525: Package contains non-free GNU FDL material

2003-09-27 Thread Herbert Xu
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am closing the bug again. You can, or course, call for the > tech ctte to override this, or a GR, or get me removed from the > project, as you wish. I fully support your position on this. When a law makes the majority of the population gui

Re: Bug#212525: Package contains non-free GNU FDL material

2003-09-27 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:31:59AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:40:07PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>I did. I feel my packages are not buggy, lacking a position > >> statement by the project. > > > > So, what

Re: Bug#212525: Package contains non-free GNU FDL material

2003-09-27 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:39:01PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > This decision to exclude GNU documentation from Debian, given > the sheer volume of GNU software in Debian, is likely to be > controversial. And we need to have a common stance on this issue. If > this is all so very obvi

Re: Bug#212525: Package contains non-free GNU FDL material

2003-09-26 Thread Brian Nelson
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:40:07PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> I did. I feel my packages are not buggy, lacking a position >> statement by the project. > > So, what we ship in main shall not be a function of whether the works in > it are D

Re: Bug#212525: Package contains non-free GNU FDL material

2003-09-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Friday, 26 Sep 2003 09:43:26 -0500, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:39:01PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 14:20:21 -0400, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> s > >I understand that debian-legal acts in an advisory capacity, >

Re: Bug#212525: Package contains non-free GNU FDL material

2003-09-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:40:07PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I did. I feel my packages are not buggy, lacking a position > statement by the project. So, what we ship in main shall not be a function of whether the works in it are DFSG-free or not, but shall instead depend on whether o

Re: Bug#212525: Package contains non-free GNU FDL material

2003-09-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand that debian-legal acts in an advisory capacity, > and is very useful to maintainers who need advice on licensing > issues. And I shall stipulate that there is a rough consensus on > debian-legal about the GFDL. Right. There is co

Re: Bug#212525: Package contains non-free GNU FDL material

2003-09-26 Thread Steve Langasek
reopen 212525 tags 212525 sarge-ignore thanks On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:39:01PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 14:20:21 -0400, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > I understand that debian-legal acts in an advisory capacity, > and is very useful to mainta

Re: Bug#212525: Package contains non-free GNU FDL material

2003-09-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 14:20:21 -0400, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Hi, On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 02:00:42 -0400, Nathanael Nerode >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>> This package contains material licensed under the GNU FDL (the >>> manual) installed in usr/share/i

Re: Bug#212525: Package contains non-free GNU FDL material

2003-09-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 14:41:53 -0400, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Don't bother reopening these reports, they shall be just as >> summarily closed. > Feel free to modify the severity; I simply set it according to > policy to start with. :-P I di

Re: Bug#212525: Package contains non-free GNU FDL material

2003-09-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Manoj Srivastava wrote: Don't bother reopening these reports, they shall be just as summarily closed. Feel free to modify the severity; I simply set it according to policy to start with. :-P There's nothing wrong with asking upstream to change its license (and I wish you luck). The si

Re: Bug#212525: Package contains non-free GNU FDL material

2003-09-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 02:00:42 -0400, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: This package contains material licensed under the GNU FDL (the manual) installed in usr/share/info/make.info*.gz. Debian-legal has determined that the GNU FDL is not a free software licens