Bug#294559: Public domain licensing

2005-02-11 Thread Martin Samuelsson
Dear knowledge source, As can be seen in #294559 I hope to become a debian developer. In the same bug report one can see that the package I'd like to start with is netbiff. According to it's web page the license is: License All code contained in netbiff is released into the public domain.

Re: Bug#294559: Public domain licensing

2005-02-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 03:12:32PM +0100, Martin Samuelsson wrote: It have been claimed that PD is a vague definition and the way GNU defines freedom, PD is only almost free because future versions might not be free. But that only applies do derived works, right? My understanding is that once

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I-D ACTION:draft-bradner-rfc-extracts-00.txt]

2005-02-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 09:48:52AM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft. [-- This text/plain attachment is not included, --] [-- and the indicated

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I-D ACTION:draft-bradner-rfc-extracts-00.txt]

2005-02-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
3.2.1. Confusion over what constitutes the standard It would clearly be confusing if someone could take an IETF standard such as RFC 3270 (MPLS Support of Differentiated Services), change a few key words and republish it, maybe in a textbook, as the definitive standards for MPLS

Re: Use of the Debian name for websites

2005-02-11 Thread Andrew Saunders
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:43:49 -0500, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This isn't avoiding it at all; the DFSG was not renamed to the Debian Free Stuff Guidelines. It merely makes it clear that documentation is included in software, at least as far as the SC is concerned. I don't think

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I-D ACTION:draft-bradner-rfc-extracts-00.txt]

2005-02-11 Thread MJ Ray
Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The fact that he's even presenting this tired old argument means that either nobody is competently presenting the arguments for freeing of standards documents, or the arguments aren't being heard ... Thank you for writing a rebuttal, Glenn. I agree with

Re: Firefox/Thunderbird trademarks: a proposal

2005-02-11 Thread MJ Ray
Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The Mozilla team seems to be committed to supporting the Debian packagers in building both mozilla-firefox and iceweasel-browser packages from the same source base. Isn't this precaution enough? We know the Mozilla Foundation licensing

Re: Use of the Debian name for websites

2005-02-11 Thread Francesco Poli
On 11 Feb 2005 01:15:42 GMT MJ Ray wrote: The FSF have a vague definition of what they consider free *documentation* and the main difference with free software is I don't believe that it is essential for people to have permission to modify all sorts of articles and books.

Re: Use of the Debian name for websites

2005-02-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:58:46AM +, Andrew Saunders wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:43:49 -0500, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This isn't avoiding it at all; the DFSG was not renamed to the Debian Free Stuff Guidelines. It merely makes it clear that documentation is included

Re: Use of the Debian name for websites

2005-02-11 Thread Josh King
Josh King wrote: Hi, I searched Google and the archives for this, but never found a solid answer. I, along with a few others, would like to start a website using the Debian name in the domain (we're using DotDebian.org as a working name for right now). The goal/intent of the site is to provide