Re: Hosting the original youtube-dl sources on salsa?

2020-11-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 09:16:21AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Rogério Brito writes: > > > Dear people, > > > > As many of you may know, the RIAA issued a resquest for GitHub to take down > > the youtube-dl repository. > > IANAL so I may be confused, but AIUI that takedown is based on the >

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:54:36AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2007, Sam Hocevar wrote: 3. Nexenta: Despite their incompatibility, Debian accepts both the CDDL and GPLv2 as valid free software licences and would welcome any solution to the distribution of a Debian

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 09:29:08PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: [...] Choice of venue clauses can short circuit the normal determination of jurisdiction in civil cases in some jurisdictions in some cases. In [...] Since this is giving up a right normally enjoyed in exchange for the ability to

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 01:18:56AM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 21:46:30 +0200 Wouter Verhelst wrote: [...] If it isn't, then the GPL is also non-free, by the very same rationale: the fact that you are required to produce source when so asked if you do distribute

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:28:22AM -0400, Michael Poole wrote: Anthony Towns writes: I don't think that's meaningful; if I sue you in a court in Australia for not complying with debootstrap's license, and they find that you've infringed the license, it doesn't really matter if I'm doing

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 05:09:57PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: On Mon, 04 Jun 2007, Wouter Verhelst wrote: If you get sued and convicted as a private person in a jurisdiction that is not yours, there are two possible outcomes: * You try to defend yourself, and might win or lose depending

Re: Request for GR: clarifying the license text licensing / freeness issue

2007-04-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 08:44:30AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Personally, I don't see distributing non-modifiable license texts to be violating the social contract. I'm curious to know how you reconcile Social Contract §1 and DFSG §3, and the fact

Re: Request for GR: clarifying the license text licensing / freeness issue

2007-04-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 12:37:16PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, nobody cares for statements that can be normalized to 'you can do all this, except that, that, that, and that', and those should also be avoided if we want readers to take the spirit of

Re: Request for GR: clarifying the license text licensing / freeness issue

2007-04-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 11:59:21AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: I disagree with this position. See Fabian Fagerholm's explanation. For a strong copyleft licence like the GPL it's particularly troublesome if people go around making minor edits: all of that code is licence-incompatible with all

Re: Request for GR: clarifying the license text licensing / freeness issue

2007-04-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 05:50:36PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: This is a proposed text for a GR. I can't actually propose a GR (not a DD), so I request that someone else who cares propose it or a similar proposal. ---begin proposed GR--- Resolved: That the DFSG shall be amended, by

Re: Linux Magazin Germany, affecting Debian's image?!

2006-07-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 07:51:30AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 05:04:02PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: If you distribute binary images with a magazine and have something in that magazine saying if you want the source write to address with a photocopy

Re: Linux Magazin Germany, affecting Debian's image?!

2006-07-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 11:43:40PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 12:15:48PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 07:51:30AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 05:04:02PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: If you distribute binary

Re: RE : Re: Linux Magazin Germany, affecting Debian's image?!

2006-07-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 03:38:32AM -0400, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: --- Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : the claim that Debian can be downloaded is a simple statement of fact which just happens to be true as a byproduct of the way we create Debian, it is not a promise. If I

Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: Linux Magazin Germany, affecting Debian's image?!

2006-07-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 05:04:18PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 11:48:05PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: If there WERE anything that said that modified versions of Debian must be avavilable for free download, it would mean that something is seriously, horribly,

Re: RE : Re: Linux Magazin Germany, affecting Debian's image?!

2006-07-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 04:31:00PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 03:38:32AM -0400, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: --- Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : the claim that Debian can be downloaded is a simple

Re: Linux Magazin Germany, affecting Debian's image?!

2006-07-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:32:43AM +0300, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: 2. Being it unofficial as it's said to be, as long as it holds Debian in the label, could you explain *WHY* the following wording from http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/ does *not* apply? Debian GNU/Linux is distributed

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 05:42:27PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alternatively, I don't think it's hard for a judge to understand that there is this piece of software which we indeed do distribute, but which is used by many other people as well, and they all exhibit

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:23:07AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux.debian.legal MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The package maintainer did not ask debian-legal (serious bug) and I'm They do not need to. No, there's no absolute *need* to do that, or to follow

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:41:27AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au Is there even any dispute that the DLJ indemnity seeks to overturn all the no warranty statements in debian and leave the licensee liable for the effects of everything in our operating system?

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 11:29:33AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] The guideline to ask debian-legal is not enforced by policy, but suggested by the Developer's Reference. Please don't confuse things by introducing the DevRef to this. Right, so I was mistaken

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:51:25PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: On Wednesday 07 June 2006 12:34, Wouter Verhelst wrote: What I cannot imagine is a case where an upstream change would result in only Sun's Java to break rather than a whole bunch of applications (so they would most likely

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 05:45:27AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: On Wednesday 07 June 2006 04:30, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:51:25PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: On Wednesday 07 June 2006 12:34, Wouter Verhelst wrote: What I cannot imagine is a case where an upstream

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 05:08:40PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: On Wednesday 07 June 2006 14:30, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:51:25PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: If you are not misguided, then why DLJ license creators put texts like: the use or distribution

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 02:38:55PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:41:27AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Cool. Where is this effect of sections 2(f)(i) and 14 disputed? I've seen repeated claims that we're not liable for Sun's changes

Re: Non-DD's in debian-legal

2006-06-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:33:46AM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: David Nusinow wrote: On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 08:04:56PM -0400, Jeremy Hankins wrote: I'm afraid I don't understand the fear here. What would it mean for d-l to become gnome.alioth.debian.org in your example? Non-developers,

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:25:35AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le dimanche 21 mai 2006 à 17:03 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : No, I'm acknowledging that the ftpmasters have no obligation to do as *you* say. The ftp-masters aren't the ones trying to tell other people what to do in this

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:50:22AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 04:04:37PM -0500, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Fears are unfounded, we can at any time terminate the license by removing java! Again this logic doesn't seem to work for me. If I was offering warez on my

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 12:03:25PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le lundi 22 mai 2006 à 10:46 +0200, Michael Meskes a écrit : And I'm pissed of that so much seems to happen behind the scenes and I as a normal developer who did not go to Mexico do not get the info even if I ask, but instead

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 11:21:34AM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 11:49:04PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: The overall subject can be software freedom but not necesarily in all cases and certainly not in the case with the man-page. One can not use simple

Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement

2006-01-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:34:46AM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: It saves *so* much trouble. But not all documentation is attached to a software. For instance, if I write a book Software development on Debian, releasing it under the GFDL is still the reasonable thing to do. Not if you

Re: Origins of debian swirl

2005-08-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 18:24:11 +1000, Simon Wright wrote: It's a simple, generic stroke of rough charcoal, a standard brush shape that ships with Adobe Illustrator. Actually, it's one of the five defaults that appear in the brushes pallete when you begin any new document I don't see any

Re: Bug#316487: debian-installer-manual: Missing copyright credit: Karsten M. Self for section C.4

2005-07-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 04:34:54PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: The fact that you're trying to coerce a maintainer to include a work instead of attempting to address his reasons for doing so, is enough for me to agree with Joey's decision. That doesn't actually seem to me to be what he's doing.

Re: Bug#316487: debian-installer-manual: Missing copyright credit: Karsten M. Self for section C.4

2005-07-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 11:15:36PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: Ok, change committed. You are now attributed in the administrivia section. Thanks for the great doc. You suck. You know you just ended a potentially great and entertaining flamewar by leaving one side without arguments? ;-) (jk, of

Re: pine license

2005-05-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 12:28:29AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: Also, if I recall correctly, there was a gnu project to write a pine replacement, but I don't know where that stands. Probably it's not complete because of a lack of development effort. Well, there's nano -- and if you want the pine

Re: GPL and command-line libraries

2004-11-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:53:21PM +0100, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: 4. Writing to debian-legal and asking for advice. Now that's a good idea. Why did you do that on debian-devel instead? -- EARTH smog | bricks AIR -- mud -- FIRE soda water | tequila WATER --

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 08:25:48PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 01:47:34AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: The first section of the SC says that Debian will remain 100% Free Software. That is the title of that section. If you bother to read it, you'll see We

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:13:24AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: * Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041019 00:40]: Wesley's software can be built using software in main. It will not be as fast, but it will still do its job, flawlessly, without loss of features, with the ability to modify

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 05:47:26PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 02:04:42AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: A difference in optimization is not relevant to a package's freedom. If compiling the program with a non-free compiler gains you users who would not find

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 06:28:01PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: [...] This package is buildable by tools in main. It meets the letter of the law. The spirit seems a bit ambiguous. Good case in point, the m68k cross-compiled stuff, where the cross-compiler used was non-free. (I have not

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 07:51:00PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le lundi 18 octobre 2004 à 19:22 +0200, Wesley W. Terpstra a écrit : So, when it comes time to release this and include it in a .deb, I ask myself: what would happen if I included (with the C source and ocaml compiler) some

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 06:55:30PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 07:51:00PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Main must be built with only packages from main. On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 12:37:45AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: No, that's not true. It seems to me

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 07:02:19PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: You can't take the source, compile it with a proprietary compiler and upload the result to main, because in order to create that package, you need a non-free compiler. The fact that you can also compile the sources with a free

Re: Keeping track of DSFG-free and non-free licenses

2004-07-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 11:15:58PM +1000, Parsons, Drew wrote: [MFT to d-legal, don't know what d-devel has to do with this] Keeping track of licences for prospective new packages is of interest to all developers. Correct. So is keeping track of how close we are to finishing

Re: remove this package from another developer

2004-07-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 02:21:35AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: In any event, the Technical Committee and Project Secretary are not and cannot be delegates under the Constitution[1]. Additionally, most port- and CDD-maintainers are not delegates (and they certainly are not delegates in their

Re: Bug#247802: ITP: libfasttrack-gift -- giFT plugin for the fastrack network

2004-05-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 01:41:09AM +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 01:20:47AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: May I ask you in which country reverse-engineering for compatibility is forbidden? I'm just curious, because it is legal in Poland, but only

Re: Bug#247802: ITP: libfasttrack-gift -- giFT plugin for the fastrack network

2004-05-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 05:52:46PM +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 11:38:17AM -0400, Dan Weber wrote: The reason why libfasttrack-gift has never been placed into debian is because it doesn't even qualify non-free. Debian could be sued for this, and other

Re: right of publicity, or why no-advertising clauses are not necessary

2004-05-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Branden Robinson wrote: A) Can folks in other countries help us find out if publicity rights are recognized there? IANAL, and the few areas about the law that I do have a more than average knowledge about do not include this part; however, ISTR having heard something about it not being legal

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot amiboot ..

2004-04-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 02:20:52AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:57:21AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 12:27:09AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: IMO we should do a clean-room implementation anyway. 1) Past experiences with Apple have

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot amiboot ..

2004-04-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 12:27:09AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: IMO we should do a clean-room implementation anyway. 1) Past experiences with Apple have not been very fruitful, just ask the Linux Mac68K hackers. Well, actually, they have been. It is true that Apple has long refused to give

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot amiboot ..

2004-04-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 12:14:50AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 02:00:46PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Well, the US are mostly the most restrictive (unreasonable) juridiction on this kind of issues, so ... That's not my experience. The U.S. is very aggressive about

Re: copyleft licence compatible with apache licence

2003-11-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
copyright notice that says something like As a special exception, the author grants you the right to link the Program with any software licensed under full name and perhaps URL of the Apache License Obviously, you can only do this legally if you are, in fact, the author of that license. -- Wouter

Re: copyleft licence compatible with apache licence

2003-11-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 01:00:17PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Obviously, you can only do this legally if you are, in fact, the author of that license. Uh. the author of the Program, not the license :) -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux

Re: BSD Protection License

2003-10-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
, the only GPL-incompatibility in this entire license is paragraph 3c. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org If you're running Microsoft Windows, either scan your computer on viruses, or stop wasting my bandwith

Re: centericq and MSN support

2003-10-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
with a lawyer, I don't think it's unreasonable to do so. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org Stop breathing down my neck. My breathing is merely a simulation. So is my neck, stop it anyway! -- Voyager's EMH versus

Re: Packaging Swiss Ephemeris Free Edition for Debian GNU/Linux

2003-10-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
points, you are welcome to provide suggestions. Not that I think I'm experienced enough to provide suggestions, but can't we at least try? -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org If you're running Microsoft Windows

Re: Swiss Ephemeris Public License

2003-10-13 Thread Wouter Verhelst
be interpreted literally enough to allow the upstream author to be identified in the debian/copyright file, as required by policy. Is that an issue? The license text needs to be part of the debian/copyright file. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux

Re: MPlayer DFSG compatibility status

2003-10-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
against xine-ui or libxine1, as appropriate. The violation wouldn't be DFSG-related (the DFSG doesn't say anything about patents, only about licenses). -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org If you're running Microsoft

Re: [OT] Debian developers

2003-10-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op vr 03-10-2003, om 03:31 schreef Manoj Srivastava: On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 00:54:29 +0200, Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: (in case my English is worse than I thought: no, the fact that 'evil' and 'manojish' appear in the same... uh... tag doesn't mean I consider Manoj evil

Re: [OT] Debian developers (was Re: committee for FSF-Debian discussion)

2003-10-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
to check. Hence, you're a liar. /evil manojish paranoia mode (in case my English is worse than I thought: no, the fact that 'evil' and 'manojish' appear in the same... uh... tag doesn't mean I consider Manoj evil :-) -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux

Re: solution to GFDL and DSFG problem (dadadodo at work?)

2003-09-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 08:37:07PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: You don't even have to go through that much of a hassle. Old-Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] That could of been forged. Received: headers can be forged, too... -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:23:06AM +0900, Fedor Zuev brabbled: On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Wouter Verhelst wrote: 8)Is Debian logo written on [cover of] the same CD-ROM software or hardware? No. Is it in Debian? So, your definition of software is heavily Debian-specific. Even

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
, the installation itself is still software. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org Stop breathing down my neck. My breathing is merely a simulation. So is my neck, stop it anyway! -- Voyager's EMH versus

Re: solution to GFDL and DSFG problem (dadadodo at work?)

2003-09-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
way you could of done worse would be to sign the damn thing. PS: Was that dadadodo? http://www.google.com/search?q=65.26.182.85+site%3Alists.debian.org You don't even have to go through that much of a hassle. Old-Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Right. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux

Re: GFDL

2003-09-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
of the manual. In other words, a modified manual. Being able to use some of the text for something of a different kind, such as an essay about the funding of free software, is something above and beyond the call of duty for a license. This is our main point of disagreement, I think. -- Wouter

Re: Why documentation and programs should not be treated alike

2003-09-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
, but also content. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org Stop breathing down my neck. My breathing is merely a simulation. So is my neck, stop it anyway! -- Voyager's EMH versus the Prometheus' EMH, stardate 51462

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
everyone thinks that way. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org Stop breathing down my neck. My breathing is merely a simulation. So is my neck, stop it anyway! -- Voyager's EMH versus the Prometheus' EMH, stardate

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
is there. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org Stop breathing down my neck. My breathing is merely a simulation. So is my neck, stop it anyway! -- Voyager's EMH versus the Prometheus' EMH, stardate 51462.

Re: A WDL.

2003-09-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 05:41:09PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 04:42:51PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: I don't think the GFDL is a good place to start from when writing a documentation license, really. The WDL is a tangled mess. Start with the GPL instead

Re: Starting to talk

2003-09-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200308/msg01031.html and the thread that follows it. Or, if you don't have much time, that message and http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200308/msg01680.html -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
effect of the Invariant Sections may be that there could be another split of the Free Software movement, as has happened with the Open Source people before. Are you sure that is what you want? [1] not that I believe in 'good' and 'bad' organizations, but you know what I mean. -- Wouter Verhelst

Re: A WDL.

2003-09-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
easier to debate over an actual text than over a hypothetical one. YMMV. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org Stop breathing down my neck. My breathing is merely a simulation. So is my neck, stop it anyway

Re: A WDL.

2003-09-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 04:42:51PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: There's nothing which is not in the GPL that I don't want. Uh. Obviously I meant there's nothing in the GPL that I would want -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie

Re: A WDL.

2003-09-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
or not_. Where's the problem? No grant to modification, perhaps? (although that probably wouldn't be extremely helpful, but anyway) -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org Stop breathing down my neck. My breathing

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
is too prohibitive by Debian's standards. Simple. Your above statement falls in the FUD class. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org Stop breathing down my neck. My breathing is merely a simulation. So is my neck

Re: A WDL.

2003-09-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op wo 17-09-2003, om 01:06 schreef Anthony DeRobertis: On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 06:26, Wouter Verhelst wrote: A Secondary Section is a named appendix or a front-matter section of the Document that deals exclusively with the relationship of the publishers or authors of the Document

Re: A WDL.

2003-09-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
a document format makes the format non-free. Next, I'm not aware of any patents on the PDF format. Do you have more information on that one? -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org Stop breathing down my neck. My breathing

Re: A WDL.

2003-09-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op zo 14-09-2003, om 16:07 schreef MJ Ray: On 2003-09-14 12:08:02 +0100 Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's no markup or placing requirement; you could put them in small print somewhere in the document; at the first page, at their original place, or perhaps on the back cover. I

Re: A WDL.

2003-09-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
license out there, but I'd say the FSF is different in that they do, honestly, want to have free documentation. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org Stop breathing down my neck. My breathing is merely a simulation

Re: Attribution-ShareAlike License

2003-09-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
:-) Rg, Wouter (who wonders whether his mail about that subject has gone unnoticed on the otherwise so active -legal) -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org Stop breathing down my neck. My breathing is merely

Re: Attribution-ShareAlike License

2003-09-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 05:22:46PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 02:18:10PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Wouter (who wonders whether his mail about that subject has gone unnoticed on the otherwise so active -legal) I just thought it was far too long. I think

Re: Attribution-ShareAlike License

2003-09-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 08:08:11PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: On 2003-09-12 19:18:18 +0100 Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: took me almost an entire day to write, and a few weeks to conceptually prepare. That's quite discouraging. It was MIME'd, base64'd, marked as attachment instead

Re: A WDL.

2003-09-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 02:05:19PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:26:07PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: As I tried to point out in the recent discussions about the GFDL (not sure whether that point has come through, but anyway), although the GFDL is crafted

Re: A WDL.

2003-09-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
not anticipate any problem, but will remove both texts from my website should the FSF not give permission. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org Stop breathing down my neck. My breathing is merely a simulation. So is my neck

A WDL.

2003-09-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
text file enumerating the differences between the FDL and the WDL, with a bit of explanation. Respectfully, -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org Stop breathing down my neck. My breathing is merely a simulation. So

Re: free source code which requires non-free tools to build (dscaler modules for tvtime)

2003-09-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 02:36:13PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: Is Not an Emulator.) It may be worth asking the FSF. They have an email address for license questions, but I have forgotten what it is. [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's something along those lines, for sure. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian

Re: Bug#181493: SUN RPC code is DFSG-free

2003-09-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op wo 10-09-2003, om 03:27 schreef Manoj Srivastava: On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 22:17:07 +0200, Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Op ma 08-09-2003, om 18:42 schreef Manoj Srivastava: Since our users and the DFSG are equally important, one should not try to solve one of those problems

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-09 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op ma 08-09-2003, om 22:39 schreef Anthony DeRobertis: On Monday, Sep 8, 2003, at 15:44 US/Eastern, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Sure. You can offer/provide it alongside, or you can give the offer (good for three years) to provide it at cost. ITYM 'at a reasonable price for distributing

Re: GFDLed and preferred form

2003-09-09 Thread Wouter Verhelst
. That is not the recommended way to do it, however, and the LyX file format is completely different. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org Stop breathing down my neck. My breathing is merely a simulation. So is my

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
provide access to the source. Sure. You can offer/provide it alongside, or you can give the offer (good for three years) to provide it at cost. ITYM 'at a reasonable price for distributing the media' :-) -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux

Re: Bug#181493: SUN RPC code is DFSG-free

2003-09-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
served by useful, working software. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org Stop breathing down my neck. My breathing is merely a simulation. So is my neck, stop it anyway! -- Voyager's EMH versus the Prometheus' EMH

Re: Bug#181493: SUN RPC code is DFSG-free

2003-09-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 05:49:36PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 00:19:32 +0200, Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 10:39:33PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 11:10:19PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Please, guys. He

Re: Bug#181493: SUN RPC code is DFSG-free

2003-09-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 11:45:23PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 12:19:32AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: If you're not willing to do that, then I suggest you shut the fuck up. We can't ship without RPC in glibc Equally, we shouldn't ship with known issues

Re: Bug#181493: SUN RPC code is DFSG-free

2003-09-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 02:56:33PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 12:09:43PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: our users and the DFSG are equally important), and the code is (at least) not GPL-incompatible (you should read the first paragraph after section 2c

Re: Bug#181493: SUN RPC code is DFSG-free

2003-09-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
for another couple of months. I'm sure none of us wants that. If I'm wrong, and you do want that, then stop the bickering, and start hacking that RPC code. After all, this lit may be discussing licenses on a daily basis, that doesn't give you any authority either. Thanks. -- Wouter Verhelst

Re: Bug#181493: SUN RPC code is DFSG-free

2003-09-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 10:39:33PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 11:10:19PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Please, guys. He isn't saying he has final say in whether or not the Sun RPC code is DFSG-free; he's just saying it shouldn't hold up the release. When did we

Re: UnrealIRCd License (Click-Through issue)

2003-09-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
a click-through license is necessary. [...] -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org Stop breathing down my neck. My breathing is merely a simulation. So is my neck, stop it anyway! -- Voyager's EMH versus

Re: UnrealIRCd License (Click-Through issue)

2003-09-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:01:35PM +0200, Mika Fischer wrote: Hi! * Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-09-01 20:39]: So, even if you do not accept the license but you do copy, modify, and/or distribute the Program, you're still bound by the License. What about use? I think that's

Re: Some licensing questions regarding celestia

2003-09-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
. It is not really the size of the data set that matters; the amount of work required to create the dataset is. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org Stop breathing down my neck. My breathing is merely a simulation. So

Re: documentation eq software ?

2003-08-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
the hypothetical scenario that someone _could_ put such a statement in ls, thereby misrepresenting the original author's opinion. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org Stop breathing down my neck. My breathing is merely

Re: SURVEY: Is the GNU FDL a DFSG-free license?

2003-08-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op do 28-08-2003, om 20:02 schreef MJ Ray: Ye gods! Who knew that software was such a contentious word? Agreed. Perhaps we should... ... Oh, wait. I already suggested we'd do so. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http

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