announcing the beginning of security support for testing

2005-09-09 Thread Joey Hess
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Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 12:00:54AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Sep 08, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Indeed, the choice of venue is a fee argument is just that: an opinion which has at best no clear roots in the DFSG, therefore it cannot make a license non-free. Yeah, but

Work-needing packages report for Sep 9, 2005

2005-09-09 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 194 (new: 0) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 86 (new: 0) Total number of packages

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 09 septembre 2005 à 00:41 +0200, Marco d'Itri a écrit : On Sep 09, Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is nothing wrong with this, and I'm not a fan of choice of venue clauses either, but they should try to modify the DFSG then. Could you explain why DFSG#5

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2005-09-09 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 8/11/05, Olaf van der Spek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/11/05, Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 09:23:12AM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: Just one more question: what happened to my original emails? I read them. Most likely I saved the wrong one for

Re: a desperate request for licence metadata

2005-09-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 06:13:57PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wrote: In some jurisdictions lending is an exclusive right of the copyright owner. Thomas Bushnell writes: Can you be specific

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | The Covered Code is a commercial item, as that term is defined in | 48 C.F.R. 2.101 (Oct. 1995), consisting of commercial computer | software and commercial computer software documentation, as such | terms are used in 48 C.F.R. 12.212 (Sept. 1995).

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 09 September 2005 01:41, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Sep 09, Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is nothing wrong with this, and I'm not a fan of choice of venue clauses either, but they should try to modify the DFSG then. Could you explain why DFSG#5 couldn't be

Re: snmpkit stuck in unstable ?

2005-09-09 Thread A Mennucc
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 09:12:15AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Looks like its entire chain is ready, so now you need a hint. Ask debian-release to do this: the page on excuses was speaking of an hint... what is it ? choice 1) a plain english email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] choice 2) a procedure

Re: snmpkit stuck in unstable ?

2005-09-09 Thread Andreas Barth
* A Mennucc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050909 10:01]: On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 09:12:15AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Looks like its entire chain is ready, so now you need a hint. Ask debian-release to do this: the page on excuses was speaking of an hint... what is it ? choice 1) a plain

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, I'm explaining that it isn't free because of DFSG#5. However, it seems that you are refusing such arguments de facto. I doubt that people who do not wish to become legally bound to appear at the the author's home court whenever he files a

Re: Bug#326429: ITP: webcheck -- website link and structure checker

2005-09-09 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 00:47 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Arthur de Jong] I'm not sure if I need some statement on the copyrights on the generated html files. The css file that is just copied has a BSD license. Generally, output from a program is not considered to be copyrighted. The

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 09, Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It does not work this way. If you believe that a license is not free it's up to you explaining why. Well, I'm explaining that it isn't free because of DFSG#5. However, it seems that you are refusing such arguments de facto. I am refusing

Bug#326429: Info received (was Bug#326429: ITP: webcheck -- website link and structure checker)

2005-09-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the package maintainer(s) and to other interested parties to accompany the original report. Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s): [EMAIL PROTECTED] arthur de

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 11:46:04AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Sep 09, Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It does not work this way. If you believe that a license is not free it's up to you explaining why. Well, I'm explaining that it isn't free because of DFSG#5. However, it

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2005-09-09 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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Re: net-tools maintenance status

2005-09-09 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 9/9/05, Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Eh, bump, please? http://net-tools.berlios.de Planned: new release 1.65 which contains all the debian patches. Use of some netdev features. Great, but when?

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Michael Poole
Henning Makholm writes: Scripsit Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, I'm explaining that it isn't free because of DFSG#5. However, it seems that you are refusing such arguments de facto. I doubt that people who do not wish to become legally bound to appear at the the author's home

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm writes: I doubt that people who do not wish to become legally bound to appear at the the author's home court whenever he files a frivolous lawsuit can be meaningfully described as a group of persons that can be discriminated against.

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Paul TBBle Hampson
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 01:56:50PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm writes: I doubt that people who do not wish to become legally bound to appear at the the author's home court whenever he files a frivolous lawsuit can be meaningfully

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Paul TBBle Hampson
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 02:30:05PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: 9. MISCELLANEOUS. Any law or regulation which provides that the language of a contract shall be construed against the drafter shall not apply to this License. Can a license exclude application of laws? Maybe there's a

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread John Hasler
Henning Makholm writes: I doubt that people who do not wish to become legally bound to appear at the the author's home court whenever he files a frivolous lawsuit can be meaningfully described as a group of persons that can be discriminated against. Why do you think that a copyright owner

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Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 07:23:10AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Henning Makholm writes: I doubt that people who do not wish to become legally bound to appear at the the author's home court whenever he files a frivolous lawsuit can be meaningfully described as a group of persons that can be

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Humberto Massa Guimarães
I doubt that people who do not wish to become legally bound to appear at the the author's home court whenever he files a frivolous lawsuit can be meaningfully described as a group of persons that can be discriminated against. If everybody belongs to the group, is it meaningfull to

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 09 September 2005 15:46, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 07:23:10AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Henning Makholm writes: I doubt that people who do not wish to become legally bound to appear at the the author's home court whenever he files a frivolous lawsuit can be

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Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
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Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Humberto Massa Guimarães
Whereas the alternative may be that licensors are unable to afford the enforcement of their license. Would you prefer to discriminate against them? YES. Please. The DFSG #5 says you should not discriminate the licensee; the licensor is OK. Debian does, in an active basis, discriminate against

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 09 September 2005 17:35, Matthew Garrett wrote: Humberto Massa Guimarães [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I doubt that people who do not wish to become legally bound to appear at the the author's home court whenever he files a frivolous lawsuit can be meaningfully described as a group of

Re: Bug#254248: What are the differences between cdebootstrap and debootstrap?

2005-09-09 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was a bit surprised to see a bug like 254248 being tagged as won't fix. There are other strange wontfix tags for cdebootstrap, including a handful of quite reasonably looking translation updates. Significantly, all of those wontfix tags were added

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
Humberto Massa Guimarães [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Free Software is about the licensors (copyright owners) relinquishing some of their rights to assure the rights of the commons. Without the licensors, there is no commons. Without an ability to enforce licenses, the concept of copyleft becomes

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 September 2005 17:35, Matthew Garrett wrote: Whereas the alternative may be that licensors are unable to afford the enforcement of their license. Would you prefer to discriminate against them? Debian has always been full of software

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humberto Massa Guimarães [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Free Software is about the licensors (copyright owners) relinquishing some of their rights to assure the rights of the commons. Without the licensors, there is no commons. Without an ability to

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] But that's already possible. The majority (all?) of licenses that we ship don't prevent me from being sued arbitrarily. The majority (all!) of license we ship do not demand that you agree *in advance* to waive your usual protections against arbitrary

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 03:41:58PM +, MJ Ray wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) wrote: I am refusing them as long as you cannot clearly show how DFSG#5 forbids some restrictions present in the CDDL. It does not work this way. If you believe that a questionable license is free,

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Yorick Cool
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 03:35:20PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: Matthew The legal system discriminates in favour of rich people. That's true Matthew regardless of license conditions. Although I don' dispute this assertion per se, the problem at hand is that *geography* necessarily discriminates

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 09 September 2005 18:41, MJ Ray wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) wrote: I am refusing them as long as you cannot clearly show how DFSG#5 forbids some restrictions present in the CDDL. It does not work this way. If you believe that a questionable license is free, then it's

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 09 September 2005 18:24, Matthew Garrett wrote: George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 September 2005 17:35, Matthew Garrett wrote: Whereas the alternative may be that licensors are unable to afford the enforcement of their license. Would you prefer to discriminate

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Garrett writes: The licensor *already* has carte blanche to harrass licensees with fivolous lawsuits. The only thing that changes are the costs. This seems remarkably similar to the argument The user has carte blanche to exercise DFSG freedoms;

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 09 September 2005 21:10, Matthew Garrett wrote: Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Garrett writes: The licensor *already* has carte blanche to harrass licensees with fivolous lawsuits. The only thing that changes are the costs. This seems remarkably similar to the

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Michael Poole
Matthew Garrett writes: A use fee imposes a cost where no cost would otherwise exist. For a big evil corporation, the difference in cost between suing me in the UK and suing me in the US is sufficiently small that they're unlikely to worry greatly about the amount. Even without a choice of

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 09 September 2005 21:57, Matthew Garrett wrote: George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 September 2005 21:03, Matthew Garrett wrote: Oh, bollocks. The social contract is with the free software community, not just the users. Arguing that the rights of the user are the

Re: announcing the beginning of security support for testing

2005-09-09 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 9/9/05, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Security support for testingThe Debian testing security team is pleased to announce the beginning of full security support for Debian's testing distribution. This is great news, and thank you! [...] We also invite you to add the following lines to

Re: announcing the beginning of security support for testing

2005-09-09 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 9/9/05, Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing etch/security-updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing etch/security-updates main contrib non-free Could I replace 'etch' with

Bug#327417: general: Since yesterdays testing upgrade pam authentication via mysql isn't working anymore.

2005-09-09 Thread Thomas Becker
Package: general Severity: important The error message is: Sep 10 00:02:45 localhost saslauthd[738]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_mysql.so) Sep 10 00:02:45 localhost saslauthd[738]: PAM [dlerror: /lib/tls/libm.so.6: symbol _rtld_global_ro, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file

Bug#327417: general: Since yesterdays testing upgrade pam authentication via mysql isn't working anymore.

2005-09-09 Thread Steve Langasek
reassign 327417 glibc thanks On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 01:28:16AM +0200, Thomas Becker wrote: Package: general Severity: important The error message is: Sep 10 00:02:45 localhost saslauthd[738]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_mysql.so) Sep 10 00:02:45 localhost saslauthd[738]: PAM

Bug#327425: ITP: gaim-slashexec -- adds functionality to execute commands from within a Gaim conversation

2005-09-09 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Benjamin Seidenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package name: gaim-slashexec Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Gary Kramlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter Lawler bleeter from users.sf.net Daniel 'datallah' Atallah

Re: Bug#327425: ITP: gaim-slashexec -- adds functionality to execute commands from within a Gaim conversation

2005-09-09 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
owner 327425 ! thanks Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Benjamin Seidenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package name: gaim-slashexec Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Gary Kramlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter Lawler bleeter from

Re: Bug#327425: ITP: gaim-slashexec -- adds functionality to execute commands from within a Gaim conversation

2005-09-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 08:47:34PM -0400, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Benjamin Seidenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package name: gaim-slashexec Version : x.y.z ^ Upstream Author : Gary Kramlich [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#327425: ITP: gaim-slashexec -- adds functionality to execute commands from within a Gaim conversation

2005-09-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 09:24:20PM -0400, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: Sorry, missed a field. Also used wrong email (annoyed at reportbug for not honoring $DEBEMAIL) Err, it does? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Bug#327425: ITP: gaim-slashexec -- adds functionality to execute commands from within a Gaim conversation

2005-09-09 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 09:24:20PM -0400, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: Sorry, missed a field. Also used wrong email (annoyed at reportbug for not honoring $DEBEMAIL) Err, it does? Hamish See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=324341 . It now

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 September 2005 18:24, Matthew Garrett wrote: But that's already possible. The majority (all?) of licenses that we ship don't prevent me from being sued arbitrarily. The only difference that choice of venue makes is that it potentially

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripsit Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Without the licensors, there is no commons. Without an ability to enforce licenses, the concept of copyleft becomes pointless. You seem to assert that licenses cannot be enforces unless the licensor gets

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 05:35:36PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 September 2005 18:24, Matthew Garrett wrote: But that's already possible. The majority (all?) of licenses that we ship don't prevent me from being sued arbitrarily. The only

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripsit Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Without the licensors, there is no commons. Without an ability to enforce licenses, the concept of copyleft becomes pointless. You seem to assert that licenses

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder, let's say you are going to be judged in some random US court, even if it is with German laws, you still would fall into common US-practice legal or something such ? Court procedures always go by the local law of the forum. -- Henning Makholm

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 09 September 2005 19:35, Matthew Garrett wrote: George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 September 2005 18:24, Matthew Garrett wrote: But that's already possible. The majority (all?) of licenses that we ship don't prevent me from being sued arbitrarily. The only

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 9/9/05, Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Humberto Massa Guimarães [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I doubt that people who do not wish to become legally bound to appear at the the author's home court whenever he files a frivolous lawsuit can be meaningfully described as a group of

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripsit Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] The licensor *already* has carte blanche to harrass licensees with fivolous lawsuits. No - if the court throws out the case ex officio because of lack of jurisdiction, no harassment results. Eh? They can

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 September 2005 19:35, Matthew Garrett wrote: That's choice of law, rather than choice of venue. I was under the impression that it was generally accepted. I mean the venue designates the jurisdiction where a lawsuit process is held. Can

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Humberto Massa Guimarães
The DFSG are not holy writ, but how about if I phrase it as discrimination against licensors without money? DFSG #5: No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons. This implies, at least to me, that the _licensor_ is not

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Michael Poole
Matthew Garrett writes: George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 September 2005 18:24, Matthew Garrett wrote: But that's already possible. The majority (all?) of licenses that we ship don't prevent me from being sued arbitrarily. The only difference that choice of venue makes is

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripsit Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] The licensor *already* has carte blanche to harrass licensees with fivolous lawsuits. No - if the court throws out the case ex officio because of lack of

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't think it makes any difference. You just open new holes I'm arguing against. Why you need to put that baseless challenges on user's souls ? The presence or absence of a choice of venue clause does not alter the fact that the licensor can

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Michael Poole
Matthew Garrett writes: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripsit Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Without the licensors, there is no commons. Without an ability to enforce licenses, the concept of copyleft becomes pointless. You seem to assert that licenses cannot be enforces

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripsit Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the case you're worrying about (obnoxious large businesses suing people in order to intimidate them), the difference in cost is unlikely to deter them. The point is that the cost *for me* of defending

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripsit Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the case you're worrying about (obnoxious large businesses suing people in order to intimidate them), the difference in cost is unlikely to deter them. The

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 09 September 2005 21:03, Matthew Garrett wrote: --cut-- That wouldn't make your argument more coherent. We're concerned exclusively with which rights the *user* gets. Whether the author thinks it is worth it to give the user those rights is not something we consider at all. We

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripsit Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] You're ignoring the cost of paying for any sort of legal advice, which isn't very realistic. No I'm not. When the case is trule meritless there is usually no reason to involve a lawyer (*unless* one is

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 September 2005 21:03, Matthew Garrett wrote: Oh, bollocks. The social contract is with the free software community, not just the users. Arguing that the rights of the user are the only ones that matter suggests that the GPL ought to be

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Garrett writes: My insurance optionally covers employment disputes, accidents and housing issues. I don't have any cover that protects me from arbitrary legal cases. In any case, Discriminates against poor people who have an insurance policy

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Michael Poole
Matthew Garrett writes: Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you point out elsewhere, total fabrications can be invented to support any claim, but DFSG freedom questions should be limited to what the license imposes on or requires from users. What's the point in us worrying about

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 05:35:36PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 September 2005 18:24, Matthew Garrett wrote: But that's already possible. The majority (all?) of licenses that we ship don't prevent me from being sued arbitrarily. The only

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 10:24:19PM +1000, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote: On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 02:30:05PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: 9. MISCELLANEOUS. Any law or regulation which provides that the language of a contract shall be construed against the drafter shall not apply to this

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Garrett writes: What's the point in us worrying about licenses granting freedoms that can't actually be exercised in life? There is no freedom not to be sued, so it's impossible for a license to contravene that. There are the DFSG freedoms to

Processed: Re: Bug#327417: general: Since yesterdays testing upgrade pam authentication via mysql isn't working anymore.

2005-09-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 327417 glibc Bug#327417: general: Since yesterdays testing upgrade pam authentication via mysql isn't working anymore. Bug reassigned from package `general' to `glibc'. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need

Announcing kernel-handbook project

2005-09-09 Thread Jurij Smakov
[This message is cross-posted to multiple mailing lists for announcement purposes only. Please edit the address list before replying! Suggested address for followups is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, In an attempt to improve the situation with Debian kernel documentation I have recently initiated

Accepted gnumeric 1.5.90-1 (source i386 all)

2005-09-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 07:00:00 +0200 Source: gnumeric Binary: gnumeric-doc gnumeric-common gnumeric gnumeric-plugins-extra Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.5.90-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)

Accepted newt 0.51.6-31 (source i386)

2005-09-09 Thread Alastair McKinstry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 22:30:22 +0100 Source: newt Binary: libnewt-dev libnewt-pic libnewt0.51 newt-tcl whiptail python-newt Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.51.6-31 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Alastair McKinstry

Accepted slang2 2.0.4-5 (source i386)

2005-09-09 Thread Alastair McKinstry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 07:56:49 +0100 Source: slang2 Binary: libslang2-dev libslang2 libslang2-udeb libslang2-pic slsh Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.0.4-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL

Accepted mod-vhost-ldap 0.2.5-1 (source i386)

2005-09-09 Thread Ondřej Surý
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 20:35:31 +0200 Source: mod-vhost-ldap Binary: libapache2-mod-vhost-ldap Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.2.5-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ondřej Surý [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ondřej

Accepted libimage-exif-perl 1.00.3-2 (source i386)

2005-09-09 Thread Julien BLACHE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 10:31:35 +0200 Source: libimage-exif-perl Binary: libimage-exif-perl Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.00.3-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Julien BLACHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Julien

Accepted ncftp2 1:2.4.3-15 (source i386)

2005-09-09 Thread Noèl Köthe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 07:44:37 +0200 Source: ncftp2 Binary: ncftp2 Architecture: source i386 Version: 1:2.4.3-15 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Noèl Köthe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Noèl Köthe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted qpsmtpd 0.30-5 (source all)

2005-09-09 Thread Devin Carraway
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 02:58:00 -0700 Source: qpsmtpd Binary: qpsmtpd Architecture: source all Version: 0.30-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Devin Carraway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Devin Carraway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted bibletime 1.5-1 (source i386)

2005-09-09 Thread Daniel Glassey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:33:45 +0100 Source: bibletime Binary: bibletime Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.5-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Daniel Glassey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Daniel Glassey [EMAIL

Accepted lablgl 1.01-7 (source i386)

2005-09-09 Thread Samuel Mimram
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 13:08:23 +0200 Source: lablgl Binary: liblablgl-ocaml-dev liblablgl-ocaml Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.01-7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian OCaml Maintainers

Accepted gnomesword 2.1.2-3 (source i386)

2005-09-09 Thread Daniel Glassey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 17:44:53 +0100 Source: gnomesword Binary: gnomesword Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.1.2-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Daniel Glassey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Daniel Glassey [EMAIL

Accepted libgtk-perl 0.7009-5 (source i386)

2005-09-09 Thread Matej Vela
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 13:58:41 +0200 Source: libgtk-perl Binary: libgnome-perl libgtk-pixbuf-perl libgtk-imlib-perl libgladexml-perl libgtk-perl libgnome-print-perl libgtkglarea-perl libgtkxmhtml-perl Architecture: source i386 Version:

Accepted socks4-server 4.3.beta2-14 (source i386)

2005-09-09 Thread Christoph Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 11:24:04 +0200 Source: socks4-server Binary: libsocks4 socks4-clients socks4-server Architecture: source i386 Version: 4.3.beta2-14 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Christoph Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted x10 1.06-12 (source i386)

2005-09-09 Thread Matej Vela
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 17:30:45 +0200 Source: x10 Binary: x10 Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.06-12 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian QA Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Matej Vela [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted ssmtp 2.61-5 (source i386 sparc)

2005-09-09 Thread Anibal Monsalve Salazar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 22:15:56 +1000 Source: ssmtp Binary: ssmtp Architecture: source i386 sparc Version: 2.61-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Anibal Monsalve Salazar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Anibal Monsalve

Accepted wmufo 1.2.1-4 (source i386)

2005-09-09 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 04:25:33 -0700 Source: wmufo Binary: wmufo Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.2.1-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Debian QA Packages [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted anna 1.15 (source powerpc)

2005-09-09 Thread Colin Watson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 14:11:36 +0100 Source: anna Binary: anna Architecture: source powerpc Version: 1.15 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Install System Team debian-boot@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Colin Watson

Accepted xorg-x11 6.8.99.900.dfsg.1-0pre1 (source i386 all)

2005-09-09 Thread David Nusinow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 12:04:56 -0400 Source: xorg-x11 Binary: libxkbui1 libxtst6-dbg xserver-common xlibs-static-dev libxp6-dbg libxevie-dev libdmx-dev libxevie1 libice6-dbg libxaw6-dbg libdmx1-dbg x-dev libxv1 libxext6-dbg libxau6-dbg

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