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

2005-07-05 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 07:27:51AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: I'll further note that someone not familiar with the debian-legal lists relationship to the Debian project, and encountering legally void, factually incorrect, and grossly inflammetory comments such as those authored, repeatedly,

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

2005-07-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 02:18:00AM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 07:27:51AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: I'll further note that someone not familiar with the debian-legal lists relationship to the Debian project, and encountering legally void, factually incorrect, and

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

2005-07-05 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 11:48:36PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Is getting the last word on a public mailing list regarding an issue that has already been amicably resolved by the parties involved an element of civil and polite discussion? I do believe a person being publically flamed has some

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

2005-07-05 Thread MJ Ray
Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like many participants on this list, I'm also not a DD, and have never represented myself to be one. To be fair, few participants on this list describe where they're coming from. Some of the older names I recognise and some of the more notorious idiots are

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

2005-07-04 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 02:15:46AM +0300, Wouter Verhelst wrote: 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

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

2005-07-03 Thread MJ Ray
Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: Under US copyright law, I and any other author am in fact granted a number of specific rights, and are legally empowered to enforce those rights under numerous civil and criminal actions. [...] Sure. A good faith attempt was made to resolve this in

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

2005-07-02 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com): Package: debian-installer-manual Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 (no legal nitpicking in the following, just common sense) Please note for further reference that each and every line, paragraph, documentation, translation, line of

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

2005-07-02 Thread Christofer C. Bell
It's pretty lame that in your crusade for user freedom, you seek to take away the last right the developer has -- being credited for his work. What a joke you have become. -- Chris With the way things are starting to go in this country, if forced to choose between being caught with a van full

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

2005-07-02 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 20:36:51 -0400 Glenn Maynard wrote: On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 12:17:43AM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: Wait one second... Of course excision is possible, but is it really a good idea? I don't think so. That's not d-legal's decision, or the DPL's. It's the maintainer's

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

2005-07-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
Bug dropped, as this matter is resolved, posted to d-l only. First off, I'd like to thank the several people in this discussion who do have contributed intelligently and meaningfully to the conversation and supported a reasonable resolution, including Michael K. Edwards, Rick Moen, Francesco

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

2005-07-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
debian-legal and DPL added to distribution. This bug concerns appropriate copyright notice in the Debian Installer Guide which adapts substantial material originally written by me. My license allows use under DFSG compliant guidelines, but requests attribution. I initially requested attribution

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

2005-07-01 Thread Michael K. Edwards
IANAL, IANADD, but it's hard for me to imagine that there is any sensible or just way to resolve this other than to credit Karsten with a significant contribution to the Guide. Such a guide is of course largely factual and could bear many resemblances to Karsten's without constituting plagiarism

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

2005-07-01 Thread Joey Hess
Karsten M. Self wrote: debian-legal and DPL added to distribution. I'm afraid that by escalating this unnecessarily, as well as resorting to certian rhetoric (for which I cannot be bothered to do a point-by-point rebuttal), you've convinced me it's best I bow out of the discussion, permantly.

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

2005-07-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 04:16:29PM -0400, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: debian-legal and DPL added to distribution. I'm afraid that by escalating this unnecessarily, as well as resorting to certian rhetoric (for which I cannot be bothered to do a

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

2005-07-01 Thread Glenn Maynard
Dropped [EMAIL PROTECTED] What the hell were you thinking? Throwing a tantrum and screaming at every email address you can find doesn't make your argument more valid (on the contrary, it suggests that you don't have much of an argument at all). On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 12:36:14PM -0700, Karsten

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

2005-07-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 04:34:54PM -0400, Glenn Maynard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Dropped [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fair enough for now. What the hell were you thinking? That after three years of trying to get appropriate credit I might as well take this to the top. Throwing a tantrum and

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 Matthew Garrett
Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A past error does not prohibit the maintainer from excising any part of the work, at his discretion. You don't get to say you made a mistake in the past, so you're not allowed to remove my work now. Regardless of what we do in future versions, we're

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

2005-07-01 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 12:36:14PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: The Debian Project has been distributing this work in violation of my copyrights. I've previously requested this be remedied in 2003, the situation remains uncorrected:

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

2005-07-01 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 11:08:24PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: Regardless of what we do in future versions, we're currently distributing material in violation of a copyright holder's license. Our choices are pretty much: a) Remove the material concerned from the installation guide in woody

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

2005-07-01 Thread Matthew Garrett
Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 11:08:24PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: a) Remove the material concerned from the installation guide in woody and sarge and get new versions uploaded to the archive. Apologise profusely. Potentially still be sued. d) Add

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

2005-07-01 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 13:01:26 -0700 Michael K. Edwards wrote: IANAL, IANADD, but it's hard for me to imagine that there is any sensible or just way to resolve this other than to credit Karsten with a significant contribution to the Guide. Such a guide is of course largely factual and could

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

2005-07-01 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 16:34:54 -0400 Glenn Maynard wrote: [...] - I would prefer attribution to excision. Being DFSG-free is a prerequisite for being in Debian, but being DFSG- free does not compel Debian to include a work. Your preferences don't make excision of a work unacceptable. Wait

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

2005-07-01 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 11:58:07PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: Sure. That's fairly equivalent to (a). Just in case I wasn't clear, the point was that the fix for past stable releases, and the fix for unstable and the next release, are unrelated; it's reasonable to do entirely different things,

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

2005-07-01 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 12:17:43AM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: Wait one second... Of course excision is possible, but is it really a good idea? I don't think so. That's not d-legal's decision, or the DPL's. It's the maintainer's decision. There are procedures in place to overrule a

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

2005-07-01 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Glenn Maynard said: On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 11:58:07PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: So you think it's acceptable to have a work in main, whose license is if you're Debian, you're never allowed to remove this work, or I'll sue you for an unrelated,

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

2005-07-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 05:08:27PM -0500, Bill Allombert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 12:36:14PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: The Debian Project has been distributing this work in violation of my copyrights. I've previously requested this be remedied in 2003, the

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

2005-07-01 Thread David Schleef
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 04:16:29PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: debian-legal and DPL added to distribution. I'm afraid that by escalating this unnecessarily, as well as resorting to certian rhetoric (for which I cannot be bothered to do a point-by-point rebuttal), you've

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

2005-07-01 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 09:02:46PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: Do you really not understand actual license issues? There is, as I understand it, a currently released work, which knowingly incorporates a substantial amount of Karsten's work, and violates his license in doing so. This is not

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

2005-07-01 Thread Matthew Garrett
Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 11:58:07PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: Yes. And? So you think it's acceptable to have a work in main, whose license is if you're Debian, you're never allowed to remove this work, or I'll sue you for an unrelated,

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

2005-07-01 Thread David Nusinow
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 12:36:14PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: This bug concerns appropriate copyright notice in the Debian Installer Guide which adapts substantial material originally written by me. My license allows use under DFSG compliant guidelines, but requests attribution. I

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

2005-07-01 Thread Glenn Maynard
(It's all well and good to say one's dropping a thread, but so much harder to stick to. Trying, trying ...) On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 03:20:31AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: Really. Listen to yourself. Are you honestly claiming that someone asking that we acknowledge his (involuntary)

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