Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-09-02 Thread Paul Elliott
On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 10:49:27PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: Francesco Poli wrote: On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 14:37:24 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote: [...] You have a right to your own opinion. You do *not* have a right to express it *on this list*. The purpose of this list is to provide

Re: AGPL request for summary of recent discussion

2013-09-02 Thread MJ Ray
On 01/09/13 18:12, Thorsten Glaser wrote: //mirabilos (with backing from other DDs in this group, by private mail) Well, I'm a DD too, I don't back that sort of disrespectful, sarcastic, uncollaborative, overlong rant and yes, lurkers support me by email too! I'll accept that the link to 2008

Re: AGPL request for summary of recent discussion

2013-09-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 12:33 PM, MJ Ray wrote: On 01/09/13 18:12, Thorsten Glaser wrote: //mirabilos (with backing from other DDs in this group, by private mail) Well, I'm a DD too, I don't back that sort of disrespectful, sarcastic, uncollaborative, overlong rant and yes, lurkers support me

Re: AGPL request for summary of recent discussion

2013-09-02 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Paul Wise pabs at debian.org writes: Likewise. I don't appreciate the disrespectful tone some folks have displayed in this and other recent threads. I would like to remind Oh great, and who’s going to deal with trolls then? You’re not holding Francesco to them, I’m noticing. I’ve heard that

Re: AGPL request for summary of recent discussion

2013-09-02 Thread MJ Ray
On 02/09/13 12:14, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Paul Wise pabs at debian.org writes: Likewise. I don't appreciate the disrespectful tone some folks have displayed in this and other recent threads. I would like to remind Oh great, and who’s going to deal with trolls then? You’re not holding

Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-09-02 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Ben Finney dijo [Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 08:56:59AM +1000]: Really, by now the regulars here all know what you think about various licenses and, frankly, we don't care to hear about it any more. Is this forum only for the regulars, then? Much of the value would, IMO, be for newcomers raising

[OT] Re: AGPL request for summary of recent discussion

2013-09-02 Thread Thorsten Glaser
MJ Ray mjr at phonecoop.coop writes: Well, we hear things like that every time someone doesn't agree about In this case I talked with other DDs on IRC. whether software follows the DFSG or not, yet the number of subscribers seems to be generally increasing towards some asymptote

Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-09-02 Thread Steve Langasek
Dear Listmasters, Francesco Poli has been a longtime subscriber to the debian-legal mailing list. He has quite extensive knowledge about licensing, and is often the first person to answer inquiries about new licenses sent to the list. However, he also consistently, repeatedly uses the list to