Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If even yourself are not able to understand it, and thus gives bogus advice, i guess you will find nobody. Sven Luther Maybe the reason the now proper advice wasn't given to you was that the feature did not exist back when you asked? Or you asked the

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:03:08AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If even yourself are not able to understand it, and thus gives bogus advice, i guess you will find nobody. Sven Luther Maybe the reason the now proper advice wasn't given to

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 07:14:02PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Moving the problem from A to B. Doesn't matter what svn repository it is in. Yes, it does matter. If it is inside kernel-wedge, you need to upload kernel wedge to benefit from any

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 02:26:20PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: ramdisk package list has no support for per-flavour module selection, and you have to end up with stuff like the netboot64 list, which has as sole usage to add the ibm power hypervisor and

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-14 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 09:53:48PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it an aggregation with the image linked into the binary? It doesn't matter for Debian's purposes. While the GPL permits

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 03:47:13AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: The whole concept is of an extreme fragility, prone to break again and again, cause lot of work for all involved, who become irritable, and bash on you when you even mention it. I did it when working on the amd64

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-13 Thread maximilian attems
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 09:53:48PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it an aggregation with the image linked into the binary? It doesn't matter for Debian's purposes. While the GPL permits shipping a GPL'd program merely aggregated

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-13 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 10:39:18 +0200 maximilian attems wrote: stop abusing debian-kernel, this thread is pointless. I disagree. Thanks especially to Goswin and Sven for your honest attempt at reaching a common understanding in these matters. It is certainly relevant, and although all the

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 04:01:12AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 11:03:29PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Compare it to including a hexdump of an image or sound in a header file and including that in the binary. And

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, now that we agreed that those modules need to go into non-free, but that provided their licence is clear enough, like in the tg3 case, they are indeed distriutable in non-free, let's go back to the initial point. This is upstream work, and work which

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-13 Thread Joey Hess
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: ramdisk package list has no support for per-flavour module selection, and you have to end up with stuff like the netboot64 list, which has as sole usage to add the ibm power hypervisor and virtualization modules, all an ugly mess. Something to improve. No

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 07:14:02PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 03:47:13AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: The whole concept is of an extreme fragility, prone to break again and again, cause lot of work for all

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 12:46:18AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 06:14:08PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where people buy their hardware or how free their hardware is has

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 08:40:44 +0200 Sven Luther wrote: So, if you like to be around with people with total lack of human decency, then you should accept when they are criticized for it. And/or you should stop repeating yourself. -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.:

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
CC limited to debian-kernel as this isn't for release anymore. Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 12:46:18AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: And actualy just recently the first one was uploaded to non-free including udebs:

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 03:13:13PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: CC limited to debian-kernel as this isn't for release anymore. Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 12:46:18AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: And actualy just recently the first one was

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 07:46:16PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What for? The installer always needs the installer udebs. Having the kernel udebs in another section just means more files to generate and to download that can go wrong. It saves

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Aug 07, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, because those are not linked together with the GPLed code, but are a mere aggregation of works inside the same media, i.e. the binary file. Those non-free firmware will never run

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 10:32:54PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Indeed. The proposal to split the packages file in a per flavour kernel repository comes directly from the need to counterbalance this augmentation of the number of packages. So instead of having 5 module udebs for

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 11:03:29PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Aug 07, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, because those are not linked together with the GPLed code, but are a mere aggregation of works inside the

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 10:32:54PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Indeed. The proposal to split the packages file in a per flavour kernel repository comes directly from the need to counterbalance this augmentation of the number of packages.

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-12 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it an aggregation with the image linked into the binary? It doesn't matter for Debian's purposes. While the GPL permits shipping a GPL'd program merely aggregated alongside a non-free program, we don't ship the nonfree part no matter what, so

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 11:03:29PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Compare it to including a hexdump of an image or sound in a header file and including that in the binary. And compare it with having that same image or sound as external file shipped in

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 06:14:08PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where people buy their hardware or how free their hardware is has little to do with Debian main. It is a problem for the linux upostream

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 11:29:44PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: I apologize for responding to Marco's post; in retrospect he was clearly trolling and I should not have responded to him. The point of my initial message was not to argue: it was that the etch timeline is unrealistic, because

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-10 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Nathanael Nerode wrote: [snip] http://wiki.debian.org/KernelFirmwareLicensing is grossly out-of-date, but I will integrate the relevant information from that in the process. KernelFirmwareLicensing is supposed to track information about mis-licensed firmware. IIRC you mentioned to have found at

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 08:12:48PM -0400, Jim Crilly wrote: On 08/08/06 04:49:33PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, it reads to me that we won't screw our users without second thought like some here

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 03:51:31PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) it is lot of work, and we (the kernel team) don't realy have the ressources for it. Then stop doing 0 day uploads and fix the kernel. No matter how long it takes. It is

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 02:48:08PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And even for an aggregation of works the DFSG holds and you are still in trouble. Sure, the DFSG says that we need the source code for those, and

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 03:51:31PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which would be a task for the debian-cd team. Has anyone talk to them about it? Currently there is no infrastructure to build non-free d-i

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 04:32:52PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 02:48:08PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And even for an aggregation of works the DFSG holds and you are still

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The point of my initial message was not to argue: it was that the etch timeline is unrealistic, because I see no progress on removing the substantial number of sourceless binaries from the Linux kernel source package, and it's *after* the kernel was

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 04:50:29PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 03:51:31PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which would be a task for the debian-cd team. Has anyone talk to them

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 04:32:52PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am not familiar enough with how library are run, but there is some very different way in which libraries called by programs work, and the way

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 06:14:08PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where people buy their hardware or how free their hardware is has little to do with Debian main. It is a problem for the linux upostream authors to support the hardware with free

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-10 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please don't lose track of the fact that there's nothing inherently wrong with a sourceless binary if that's all the source anyone *has*. I think in most of the cases under consideration, we have firmware which a hardware manufacturer wrote and then

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 04:49:33PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, it reads to me that we won't screw our users without second thought like some here are proposing. In my opinion, we have been screwing our users for years by lying to them

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 08:12:48PM -0400, Jim Crilly wrote: On 08/08/06 04:49:33PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, it reads to me that we won't screw our users without second thought like some here are proposing. In my opinion, we have

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2) either move the individual affected drivers or just their firmware if possible to non-free, and keep the cripled kernel in main. This is certainly the last resort, in my opinion, but it isn't crippled. Merely not supporting particular pieces of

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 4) pass a GR explaining the issue as is, and admitting our incapacity to fix it with 2 or 3 due to lack of ressources. We do not need a GR to simply follow our existing procedures. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:57:36AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2) either move the individual affected drivers or just their firmware if possible to non-free, and keep the cripled kernel in main. This is certainly the last resort, in my

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:58:33AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 4) pass a GR explaining the issue as is, and admitting our incapacity to fix it with 2 or 3 due to lack of ressources. We do not need a GR to simply follow our existing

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nope, the issue only surfaced early after the sarge release, a bit less than a year ago, when the new kernel team formed. It was discussed *before* sarge was released that there was non-free firmware in the kernel, and we decided to ignore it for the sarge

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:58:33AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 4) pass a GR explaining the issue as is, and admitting our incapacity to fix it with 2 or 3 due to lack of ressources. We do not need a

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 02:02:42AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:58:33AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 4) pass a GR explaining the issue as is, and admitting our

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 02:01:33AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nope, the issue only surfaced early after the sarge release, a bit less than a year ago, when the new kernel team formed. It was discussed *before* sarge was released that there was

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Frederik Schueler
Hallo, On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 02:02:42AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: We can simply take our time to do (2). It is the job of a package maintainer to check the licenses of their software; if the kernel team cannot do so by December, even with help, I don't mind waiting. then, please,

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Jeff Carr
On 08/02/06 22:17, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Start with drivers/char/drm/mga_ucode.h. This is distributable, because it's under a BSD license, but it's not free software, because there's no source code. There is no source code, because there never was any source code. What do you think

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 08/02/06 22:17, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Start with drivers/char/drm/mga_ucode.h. This is distributable, because it's under a BSD license, but it's not free software, because there's no source code. There is no source code, because there never was any source code.

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I apologize for responding to Marco's post; in retrospect he was clearly trolling and I should not have responded to him. The point of my initial message was not to argue: it was that the etch timeline is unrealistic, because I see no progress on removing the substantial number of sourceless

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 07:39:21AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 06:49:32AM +0200, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:46:09PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Aug 08, Thomas Bushnell BSG

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # Our priorities are our users and free software We will be guided by the needs of our users and the free software community. We will place their interests first in our priorities. We will support the needs of our users for operation in many

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, it reads to me that we won't screw our users without second thought like some here are proposing. In my opinion, we have been screwing our users for years by lying to them about whether their software was free. We would even say things like hardware

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-08 Thread Jim Crilly
On 08/08/06 04:49:33PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, it reads to me that we won't screw our users without second thought like some here are proposing. In my opinion, we have been screwing our users for years by lying to them about whether

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 04:50:54PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, i don't believe there is much choice left to the kernel team in this issue but to ask for a waiver of the DFSG compliance for the kernel for etch, and hope the d-i folk take

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Frederik Schueler
Hello, On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 09:32:11AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: These are fine words, but how do you think they can translate into reality ? We don't currently have the ressources to do it the way it should be done, and evne if we did, the deficiencies of d-i will make the work we do

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 10:23:31AM +0200, Frederik Schueler wrote: Hello, On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 09:32:11AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: These are fine words, but how do you think they can translate into reality ? We don't currently have the ressources to do it the way it should be done,

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 01:21:32PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Aug 04, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: think not? Prove it by proposing a GR. More importantly, the release team

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 07, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, because those are not linked together with the GPLed code, but are a mere aggregation of works inside the same media, i.e. the binary file. Those non-free firmware will never run inside the same memory space as the kernel,

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 02:48:08PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 01:21:32PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Aug 04, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:53:51PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Aug 07, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, because those are not linked together with the GPLed code, but are a mere aggregation of works inside the same media, i.e. the binary file. Those non-free

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:53:51PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Aug 07, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, because those are not linked together with the GPLed code, but are a mere aggregation of works inside the same media, i.e. the binary

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 06:24:12PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:53:51PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Aug 07, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, because those are not linked together with the GPLed code, but are a

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: untruth in what i said above, or in the other mail ? Yes. There is the option of simply not supporting installation on the devices in question. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 08, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. There is the option of simply not supporting installation on the devices in question. i.e. screwing our users. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Aug 08, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. There is the option of simply not supporting installation on the devices in question. i.e. screwing our users. We Do Not Distribute Non-Free Software No Matter How Much It Helps Our

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 08, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We Do Not Distribute Non-Free Software No Matter How Much It Helps Our Users. Now think about why we do not do it. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Aug 08, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We Do Not Distribute Non-Free Software No Matter How Much It Helps Our Users. Now think about why we do not do it. It does not matter. Different members of Debian have different reasons. We

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 08, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now think about why we do not do it. It does not matter. Different members of Debian have different reasons. We have all agreed to work together on the basis of the Social Contract, which says that We Do Not Distribute Non-Free

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Aug 08, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now think about why we do not do it. It does not matter. Different members of Debian have different reasons. We have all agreed to work together on the basis of the Social Contract, which

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:26:45PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: untruth in what i said above, or in the other mail ? Yes. There is the option of simply not supporting installation on the devices in question. Yeah, well, sure there is, but

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:46:09PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Aug 08, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We Do Not Distribute Non-Free Software No Matter How Much It Helps Our Users. Now think about why we do not do it.

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-07 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 06:49:32AM +0200, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:46:09PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Aug 08, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We Do Not Distribute Non-Free Software

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Aug 04, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: think not? Prove it by proposing a GR. More importantly, the release team I had such a plan, but no time to implement it currently. How do you handle the fact that it is a license violation

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-06 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 05 August 2006 17:30, Marco d'Itri wrote: In linux.debian.kernel Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see that the lawyers of SuSE and Red Hat do not believe this to be true or at least do not consider it a problem, and this is enough for me to ignore the opinion of the

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 01:21:32PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Aug 04, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: think not? Prove it by proposing a GR. More importantly, the release team I had such a plan, but no time to

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In linux.debian.kernel Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The real issue here is one of freedom and DFSG and not one of legality anyway. Those firmware are not DFSG-free and have nothing to do in main, and this is the real problem. They were not a

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 George Danchev wrote: On Saturday 05 August 2006 17:30, Marco d'Itri wrote: In linux.debian.kernel Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see that the lawyers of SuSE and Red Hat do not believe this to be true or at least do not consider it a

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, i don't believe there is much choice left to the kernel team in this issue but to ask for a waiver of the DFSG compliance for the kernel for etch, and hope the d-i folk take their responsabilities a bit more seriously for the etch+1 release. Or, the

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 02:22:18AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Aug 04, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: think not? Prove it by proposing a GR. More importantly, the release team I had such a plan, but no time to implement it currently. How do you handle the fact that

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: I see that the lawyers of SuSE and Red Hat do not believe this to be true or at least do not consider it a problem, and this is enough for me to ignore the opinion of the debian-legal@ armchair lawyers. We already know that the lawyers of SuSE and Red

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I became a developer long before the NM process was created, and I agreed to follow the unclarified social contract. Are you unwilling to follow the current Social Contract? If so, you should resign, and yesterday. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In linux.debian.kernel Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What can be done about this? Accept that most people do not consider this a problem? First of all, this is false. Most Debian developers agree with me. You This is unproven. It is also

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 04, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: think not? Prove it by proposing a GR. More importantly, the release team I had such a plan, but no time to implement it currently. How do you handle the fact that it is a license violation making the thing illegal to distribute? I

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marco d'Itri wrote: On Aug 04, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: think not? Prove it by proposing a GR. More importantly, the release team I had such a plan, but no time to implement it currently. How do you handle the fact that it

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
In linux.debian.kernel Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What can be done about this? Accept that most people do not consider this a problem? First of all, this is false. Most Debian developers agree with me. You think not? Prove it by proposing a GR. More importantly, the release