Re: I begin undestand debian community (comments to FAQ)

2005-04-20 Thread Martin Dickopp
Olleg Samoylov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DFSG primary was developed for software and not adequate to text documents, which not needed to be builded. That's wrong, Bruce Perens intended the DFSG to apply to software and documentation alike when he designed them. See his clarification here:

Re: Concerns about works created by the US government

2005-04-06 Thread Martin Dickopp
Sean Kellogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But as a practical matter, I don't believe the U.S. Government really create all that much copyrightable work these days. I find the CIA World Factbook and much of the data (including images) released by NASA quite valuable. Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: GPL for documentation ?

2005-03-10 Thread Martin Dickopp
Daniel Carrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) The GPL language talks about software. Not really. Software is mentioned in the Preamble, in some clarifying remarks in Section 7, and in Section 10 (referring to software copyrighted by the FSF). Section 3 talks about media customarily used for

symlinks package non-free?

2004-09-24 Thread Martin Dickopp
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Re: Help about texture inclueded in stellarium

2004-07-18 Thread Martin Dickopp
Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: License for these is at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/policy/index.cfm, and here it is: --- Unless otherwise noted, images and video on JPL public web sites (public sites ending with a jpl.nasa.gov address) may be used for any purpose without

copyrightable vs. copyrighted (was Re: databases not copyrightable in the USA)

2004-05-12 Thread Martin Dickopp
Humberto Massa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In another topic, I prefer the term copyrighted. Copyrightable is an ugly, ugly term... and everything that is copyrightable is copyrighted by default... I see a fine distinction between the two terms. For example, a work created by the U.S.

Re: Fwd: reiser4 non-free?

2004-05-06 Thread Martin Dickopp
Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Burnes, James wrote: 3. Is it that you simply want an efficient mechanism for cataloging efforts of the major contributors to a project? If that's the case why don't we just come up with some sort of credits standard to be macro embedded in the

Re: Fwd: reiser4 non-free?

2004-05-06 Thread Martin Dickopp
Jamin W. Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 06:16:50PM +0200, Martin Dickopp wrote: Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Burnes, James wrote: 3. Is it that you simply want an efficient mechanism for cataloging efforts of the major contributors to a project

Re: Fwd: reiser4 non-free?

2004-05-04 Thread Martin Dickopp
Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You miss the point. I get plenty of credit because of the filesystem name. It is everybody else who gets shortchanged unless we print a randomly chosen 1 paragraph credit at mkreiser4 time. I'm not a Debian developer. But I don't understand your