Re: Packaging Linuxant's driverloader?

2004-01-09 Thread Walter Landry
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-01-09 03:48:49 + Joel Konkle-Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess the meat of my question applies to ndiswrapper http://ndiswrapper.sf.net as well. ndiswrapper itself is GPL, but to work properly, requires the Windows drivers for the

Request for someone to talk to copyright holders

2004-01-09 Thread Anthony Towns
Hi guys, Bug#211765, xfree86: material under non-free licenses in XFree86 appears to have been languishing for a few months now, without anyone trying to talk to the copyright holders to see if this stuff can be relicensed in a DFSG-free fashion. Is there someone on this list who's interested in

Re: Packaging Linuxant's driverloader?

2004-01-09 Thread Adam McKenna
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 07:42:06AM -0500, Walter Landry wrote: I think it is analogous to Quake. Quake's source is free, but to do anything useful (or fun) requires the shareware wads. So until someone actually writes a free driver that ndiswrapper can use, I would say that it belongs in

Re: Packaging Linuxant's driverloader?

2004-01-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 07:42:06AM -0500, Walter Landry wrote: I guess the meat of my question applies to ndiswrapper http://ndiswrapper.sf.net as well. ndiswrapper itself is GPL, but to work properly, requires the Windows drivers for the network devices it is trying to

Re: Request for someone to talk to copyright holders

2004-01-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 03:25:25PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 11:19:00PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Hi guys, Bug#211765, xfree86: material under non-free licenses in XFree86 appears to have been languishing for a few months now, without anyone trying to talk

Re: Packaging Linuxant's driverloader?

2004-01-09 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:30:59AM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: ndiswrapper was created specifically to load windows drivers for network devices that Linux doesn't support yet, so I think it's doubtful that someone would write a free driver for it. They could just write a real Linux driver

LinuxWorld NY banner

2004-01-09 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
(Please CC me on replies, even though I am subscribed to -legal, and also retain the CC to -events-na.) Hi -legal, I am going to make a large (maybe 48-by-48) ink-on-vinyl Debian swirl banner to bring to the Debian booth at LinuxWorld NY later this month[1]. I was planning to simply put a Debian

Re: Packaging Linuxant's driverloader?

2004-01-09 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:48:06PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: Someone might write a free driver for Windows, that this wrapper could run. Yes, someone could. But I doubt someone will. What would be the point? You're asking what the point of Free Software is? The answer doesn't care which

Re: Packaging Linuxant's driverloader?

2004-01-09 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Jan 8, 2004, at 22:48, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I guess the meat of my question applies to ndiswrapper http://ndiswrapper.sf.net as well. ndiswrapper itself is GPL, but to work properly, requires the Windows drivers for the network devices it is trying to configure. Does this somehow

latex2html license: A Letter to Leeds University, round 2

2004-01-09 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, thanks Matt, for polishing my first draft of the letter[1]. I incorporated your changes, made the wording University of Leeds more consistent and changed Debian GNU/Linux back to Debian (IMO the project name is Debian, while Debian GNU/Linux is a product). I will submit the attached version

Re: LinuxWorld NY banner

2004-01-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 03:36:12PM -0500, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: (Please CC me on replies, even though I am subscribed to -legal, and also retain the CC to -events-na.) (What CC? :) I am going to make a large (maybe 48-by-48) ink-on-vinyl Debian swirl banner to bring to the Debian booth at

Re: Packaging Linuxant's driverloader?

2004-01-09 Thread Adam McKenna
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 05:05:13PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:30:59AM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: ndiswrapper was created specifically to load windows drivers for network devices that Linux doesn't support yet, so I think it's doubtful that someone would write a

Re: Request for someone to talk to copyright holders

2004-01-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 11:19:00PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Hi guys, Bug#211765, xfree86: material under non-free licenses in XFree86 appears to have been languishing for a few months now, without anyone trying to talk to the copyright holders to see if this stuff can be relicensed in a

Re: Packaging Linuxant's driverloader?

2004-01-09 Thread Adam McKenna
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 06:34:07PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:48:06PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: Someone might write a free driver for Windows, that this wrapper could run. Yes, someone could. But I doubt someone will. What would be the point? You're