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

2003-08-31 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 04:39:05PM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote: IMHO This is _not_ appropriate for debian-devel-announce. It's not a soapbox, please keep your messages purely informational in the future. (If I haven't critizied others for doing the same thing, sorry. Maybe it was because your's

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

2003-08-30 Thread Matt Taggart
CC me on replies. Thanks. Branden Robinson writes... A little over one week ago, I posted a survey[1] to the debian-legal mailing list, requesting the opinion of subscribers regarding one of a pair of related questions that have been asked with increasing frequency on that list, and in a few

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

2003-08-29 Thread Walter Landry
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2003-08-29 05:40:37 +0100 Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are the results of the survey. possible non- developers developers developers

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

2003-08-29 Thread MJ Ray
On 2003-08-29 14:57:26 +0100 Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is only meaningful if the sample is unbiased. Oh, that's a bit strong. It would still have some meaning, just not one that's useful ;-) The question is: is it an unbiased sample of those who would vote in a GR on this

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

2003-08-29 Thread MJ Ray
On 2003-08-29 15:36:42 +0100 Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are several issues. - This survey was made during aout, where more than usually people can be on vacation -- yeah, I was :) I was on holiday for some of August too. I suspect that is uncorrelated with views on FDL.

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

2003-08-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
I conclude that there is a probability of less than 1 in 1000 that the above total vote for option 1 would have been obtained by pure chance if there was no majority for option 1 over all others. This is only meaningful if the sample is unbiased. Since the survey was announced on

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

2003-08-29 Thread MJ Ray
On 2003-08-29 05:40:37 +0100 Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are the results of the survey. possible non- developers developers developers

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

2003-08-29 Thread MJ Ray
On 2003-08-29 16:09:45 +0100 MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I can't see either happening. Should have read either change. Sorry to point it out, but there are some picky people in this thread.

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

2003-08-29 Thread Walter Landry
Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I conclude that there is a probability of less than 1 in 1000 that the above total vote for option 1 would have been obtained by pure chance if there was no majority for option 1 over all others. This is only meaningful if the sample is

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

2003-08-29 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] - It's represent only the point of view of people at debian-legal while the scope of the issue is way more general than that. The survey was announced in DWN before the polling booth closed. During the last year, DWN has ran several stories about the

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

2003-08-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le ven 29/08/2003 à 16:36, Mathieu Roy a écrit : - This survey was made during aout, where more than usually people can be on vacation -- yeah, I was :) Yeah, so it deprived us of your stupid arguments. What a shame. - It's represent only the point of view of people at debian-legal

[RESULTS] SURVEY: Is the GNU FDL a DFSG-free license?

2003-08-29 Thread Branden Robinson
A little over one week ago, I posted a survey[1] to the debian-legal mailing list, requesting the opinion of subscribers regarding one of a pair of related questions that have been asked with increasing frequency on that list, and in a few other forums around the Internet. Does the GNU Free

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

2003-08-29 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 04:36:42PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: - This survey was made during aout, where more than usually people can be on vacation -- yeah, I was :) Yes, I'm sure that if the survey was taken at a more appropriate time, the majority of people who understand that the GFDL is