Re: [was A possible GFDL compromise] documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
Jeremy Hankins [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm even not sure whether it's a problem to have an invariant part in documentation. As my main area of work is History, I'm familiar with books -some kind of documentation- that I cannot change

Re: [was A possible GFDL compromise] documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread MJ Ray
On 2003-08-29 14:28:54 +0100 Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : 1/ The statement that you were objecting to here does not use we at all, so defining we is irrelevant. I replied to Josselin who wrote the following: If providing any sort of crap

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: documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
Every scientific book is made of references, bibliographies. You do not remodify a book someone wrote - that's pointless. Which is it? Pointless or impossible? Let's try to maintain as much clarity as we can here. If your argument is that it's pointless my response is that that's not

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
Jacobo Tarrio [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : O Venres, 29 de Agosto de 2003 ás 11:17:14 +0200, Mathieu Roy escribía: And according to the Debian Social Contract #4, Debian priorities are [Debian] users and Free Software. And Debian's users expect that everything they find in main will

Re: Licence oddity in Securing Debian Manual (was: Proposed addition to Debian web pages re: GNU FDL)

2003-08-29 Thread Joe Moore
Branden Robinson said: On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:54:31AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: This reminded me of something I noticed earlier today. The Securing Debian Manual at All well and good, so far. Appendix H of the Manual, in

Re: documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread Jeremy Hankins
Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeremy Hankins [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : You're not the only one to have this misconception, so I want to emphasize this point. The only way you can write your own text based on the old one is if the license permits you to do so. Typically with

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Matthew Garrett
Fedor Zuev wrote: On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Matthew Garrett wrote: See http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1988/Ukpga_19880048_en_3.htm#mdiv17 - in the UK, installation from CD requires permission from the copyright holder. There are no fair use provisions, either. IMHO, this is slightly outdated revision

Re: SUN RPC code is DFSG-free

2003-08-29 Thread Jeremy Hankins
Fedor Zuev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Jeremy Hankins wrote: I thought I'd been following this discussion, but it seems to have branched off into a discussion of originality. Unless I'm horribly confused (which, as always, is possible) originality is absolutely irrelevant to

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

2003-08-29 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 07:17:46PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Thursday, Aug 21, 2003, at 01:09 US/Eastern, Branden Robinson wrote: [why to the mailing list...?] So people can verify the results for themselves, and will be less likely to accuse me of falsifying the results. Or so I

Re: Bug#156287: Advice on Drip (ITP #156287)

2003-08-29 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian T. Sniffen) writes: The ban on use of circumvention devices for copy-prevention schemes is probably toothless, given the fair use doctrine. However, the following activities banned by the DMCA are not copyright infringement, and so fair use is not a defense for them:

Re: Proposed addition to Debian web pages re: GNU FDL

2003-08-29 Thread Andreas Barth
* Nathanael Nerode ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030829 00:05]: Andreas Barth wrote: I don't think it's good manners to try to push a certain view by putting it on the web sites. No, first finish the discussion in d-l, and the you _might_ put additions on the web site. (Though I think it's even then

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:52:57PM +0900, Fedor Zuev wrote: On the flip side, the transformation from the source to the binary for programs is not one-way. You can turn that binary back into source - look at dozens of Java disassemblers, and the theory is the same for any source-binary

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: Bug#156287: Advice on Drip (ITP #156287)

2003-08-29 Thread Brian T. Sniffen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian T. Sniffen) writes: The ban on use of circumvention devices for copy-prevention schemes is probably toothless, given the fair use doctrine. However, the following activities banned by the DMCA are not copyright

Re: [was A possible GFDL compromise] documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 03:17:12PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: I'm completely capable to read a book and make a summary, make a speech about it ... there's no way to forbid that - since I have the freedom of speech and freedom of thought. Every scientific book is made of references,

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: [was A possible GFDL compromise] documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : 1/ The statement that you were objecting to here does not use we at all, so defining we is irrelevant. I replied to Josselin who wrote the following: If providing any sort of crap _we_ can was a service to our users, there wouldn't be any

GNU FDL makes difference files useless

2003-08-29 Thread Fedor Zuev
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Scott James Remnant wrote: GNU CVS repository, emacs/man/emacs.texi, revision 1.64 The following two changes are made in this revision: -to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `show c' +to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `show c' and -(which

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : I hope that the Debian developers will vote to include GFDL-covered manuals in Debian. Whatever Debian decides, some amount of cooperation ought to be possible between the GNU Project and Debian. You are asking for one-way

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: Proposed addition to Debian web pages re: GNU FDL

2003-08-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Andreas Barth wrote: I don't think it's good manners to try to push a certain view by putting it on the web sites. No, first finish the discussion in d-l, and the you _might_ put additions on the web site. (Though I think it's even then not the right place for that; but that's a different point

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Fedor Zuev
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Monday, Aug 25, 2003, at 10:44 US/Eastern, Fedor Zuev wrote: So, there is no censorship in the world as long as no one threaten to kill you? Well. That's not what I said, and even if it were, there are other forms of coercion,

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: SUN RPC code is DFSG-free

2003-08-29 Thread Jeremy Hankins
Fedor Zuev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Jeremy Hankins wrote: Fedor Zuev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One can argue, that separation of SUN RPC from GLIBS do not contribute enough (any) originality to constitute creation of new original work of authorship. If that is the

Re: [was A possible GFDL compromise] documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread MJ Ray
On 2003-08-29 14:17:12 +0100 Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm completely capable to read a book and make a summary, make a speech about it ... there's no way to forbid that - since I have the freedom of speech and freedom of thought. That is not a derived work. You can use proprietary

Re: [was A possible GFDL compromise] documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : As evidence that the FSF's attempt to disseminate their philosophy by piggybacking it on technical manuals using the GFDL is flawed, I present the fact that none of the people that the FSF's views seem to have reached via this vector are capable of

Re: SUN RPC code is DFSG-free

2003-08-29 Thread Fedor Zuev
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Jeremy Hankins wrote: Fedor Zuev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Jeremy Hankins wrote: I thought I'd been following this discussion, but it seems to have branched off into a discussion of originality. Unless I'm horribly confused (which, as always, is

Re: documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread Jeremy Hankins
Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pointless. I think it's pointless to provide a freedom which already given and cannot be removed. Do you think we already have the right to modify invariant text in the GFDL? My only point is that the analogy between books (which may or may not be free,

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

2003-08-29 Thread Fedor Zuev
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le ven 29/08/2003 ? 10:42, Fedor Zuev a ?crit : Of course. You did not know? It is a completely your problem. You probably wanted to say something, but the following explains all: You are not aware? Hey, I know you! You are Jean-Claude Van

Re: [was A possible GFDL compromise] documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread MJ Ray
On 2003-08-29 13:52:39 +0100 Jeremy Hankins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only way you can write your own text based on the old one is if the license permits you to do so. [...] And we can have a fun debate about whether you can still call that plagiarism but it's not really relevant to

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

2003-08-29 Thread Brian T. Sniffen
Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Joe Wreschnig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030828 19:50]: On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 03:55, Andreas Barth wrote: So, as a ad-hoc statement it seems to me that the only way in the spirit of the Social Contract is to accept GFDL-docu if certain restrictions are

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Fedor Zuev
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, David Starner wrote: May be user will decide not to use Emacs at all, if he will know, that Emacs and Manifesto written by the same man. (Btw, this if a far more usual and far more honest behavior, than strip Manifesto and continue to use it) Maybe he will decide not to

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 --

Re: swirl infringement by electrostore.se

2003-08-29 Thread Sunnanvind Fenderson
I haven't been seeing my mail on debian-legal lately, maybe I have some email troubles.. hopefully the CC will get through, though. (Gerfried, if my email to debian-legal doesn't get there, would you kindly forward it there?) Gerfried Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any news on the case of

Re: [was A possible GFDL compromise] documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : On 2003-08-29 14:17:12 +0100 Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm completely capable to read a book and make a summary, make a speech about it ... there's no way to forbid that - since I have the freedom of speech and freedom of thought. That is

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: [was A possible GFDL compromise] documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread MJ Ray
On 2003-08-29 15:53:09 +0100 Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because the DFSG is not DFSG compliant. AFAICT, the DFSG is under the OPL with no options enabled and that licence is considered DFSG-free. Am I missing something?

Re: Proposed addition to Debian web pages re: GNU FDL

2003-08-29 Thread MJ Ray
On 2003-08-29 15:09:53 +0100 Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The discussion _has_ been finished for quite a while. All we are seeing now is people who haven't bothered to read the last few years of debian-legal. Apologies for my part in that. I think it does take some effort to see

[was A possible GFDL compromise] documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : On 2003-08-29 12:04:18 +0100 Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Readers of this list (not only developers) have stated their strong belief that the GFDL does not follow the DFSG. I'm a reader of this list and I'm pretty sure I never stated such

Re: SUN RPC code is DFSG-free

2003-08-29 Thread Fedor Zuev
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Jeremy Hankins wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: Every copyright case that's lost by the defendents is an example. That's the point: if you come up with the exact same expression, then either you've copied, or there's a lack of originality in the work

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Fedor Zuev
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, David B Harris wrote: ---/text/dossie/gfdl/fdl.txt-- You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either commercially or noncommercially, provided that this License, the copyright notices, and the license notice saying this License applies to the

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le ven 29/08/2003 à 11:17, Mathieu Roy a écrit : You and some other Debian developers have said this, but you do not speak for all Debian developers any more than I do. You are trying to persuade them, and I am too. I expect that eventually they will vote on a decision. And according

Re: Freedom to modify other literary work, was: [...GFDL...] documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : Please stop cc'ing me. Read the code of conduct. Can't your mailer delete duplicate? I do not want to be guessing whether the person I'm replying to subscribed to the list each time I send a mail to the list. On 2003-08-29 17:32:33 +0100 Mathieu Roy

Freedom to modify other literary work, was: [...GFDL...] documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread MJ Ray
Please stop cc'ing me. Read the code of conduct. On 2003-08-29 17:32:33 +0100 Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But describing a software is not the most interesting thing. While describing and analysing a book is the most interesting thing you can do with a book (apart from reading it,

Re: Freedom to modify other literary work, was: [...GFDL...] documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread MJ Ray
On 2003-08-29 18:57:16 +0100 Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't your mailer delete duplicate? Yes. I do not want to be guessing whether the person I'm replying to subscribed to the list each time I send a mail to the list. You do not have to. Read the code of conduct. You also

Re: documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
Jeremy Hankins [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeremy Hankins [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you think we already have the right to modify invariant text in the GFDL? Yes I do. I can rewrite any idea

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Venres, 29 de Agosto de 2003 ás 16:09:57 +0200, Mathieu Roy escribía: The DFSG itself does not meet the DFSG itself, if you think that no text can be invariant. I believe that you can make modified versions of the DFSG, as long as you do not call the resulting document The Debian Free

Re: documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread Joe Moore
Mathieu Roy said: The same goes from the Ancient tragedies. But it's already perfectly possible to make a remake of any book, story or movie. The ancient tragedies are not protected by copyright. Try making a remake of the Harry Potter books, and see how long it takes to be sued. Try writing

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: SUN RPC code is DFSG-free

2003-08-29 Thread Fedor Zuev
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Jeremy Hankins wrote: I never said that Sun's code unoriginal or uncopyrightable. Ah, I think I understand. You're talking about the originality involved in the act of separating out the Sun RPC code from the glibc code? I don't see how that's relevant. Sorry.

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
Jacobo Tarrio [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : O Venres, 29 de Agosto de 2003 ás 16:09:57 +0200, Mathieu Roy escribía: The DFSG itself does not meet the DFSG itself, if you think that no text can be invariant. I believe that you can make modified versions of the DFSG, as long as you do

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le ven 29/08/2003 à 16:09, Mathieu Roy a écrit : The DFSG itself does not meet the DFSG itself, if you think that no text can be invariant. Do you intend to repeat the whole load of silly things we have read during last week on this list? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :'

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

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread paul cannon
On Thu, 28 Aug, 2003 at 06:43:48PM -0500, Rick Moen wrote: ...or (at your [the recipient's] option) any later version. The fact that your refers to the _recipient_ means that Scott's worst-case scenario of FSF issuing a screwball GPLv3 is not a serious concern _even_ for work whose licence

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
paul cannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : On Thu, 28 Aug, 2003 at 06:43:48PM -0500, Rick Moen wrote: ...or (at your [the recipient's] option) any later version. The fact that your refers to the _recipient_ means that Scott's worst-case scenario of FSF issuing a screwball GPLv3 is not a

Re: Freedom to modify other literary work, was: [...GFDL...] documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread Brian T. Sniffen
Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : Please stop cc'ing me. Read the code of conduct. Can't your mailer delete duplicate? I do not want to be guessing whether the person I'm replying to subscribed to the list each time I send a mail to the list.

Re: [was A possible GFDL compromise] documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 04:53:09PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: Yes, and our goal is to always respect authors: by not distributing works that they don't wish to make available under the terms of the DFSG. Including the GPL and the DFSG? Because the DFSG is not DFSG compliant. Other

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Richard Stallman
We are the ones who first started to say that documentation should be free, and we are the ones who first wrote criteria for free documentation. I don't see how this is relevant. It's relevant in the context where I stated it: as a response to an accusation that implied we

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Richard Stallman
I hope that the Debian developers will vote to include GFDL-covered manuals in Debian. Whatever Debian decides, some amount of cooperation ought to be possible between the GNU Project and Debian. You are asking for one-way cooperation. I'm not asking Debian to do anything for

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Fedor Zuev
On Thu, 27 Aug 2003, Stephen Ryan wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 07:13, Fedor Zuev wrote: Removing of secondary section from manual can't be count nor as improvement, nor as adaptation of manual. It is, by definition[0], off-topic. Therefore, as any good editor[1] will tell you, it would

Re: Inconsistencies in our approach

2003-08-29 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian T. Sniffen) writes: Nobody is claiming Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, or the King James Bible, to be software. Quite a few of us are claiming that this MP3 over here, beethovens_ninth.mp3, is software. So is this file bible.txt. I claim that the Ninth, and the text of

Re: [was A possible GFDL compromise] documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le ven 29/08/2003 à 15:28, Mathieu Roy a écrit : MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : 1/ The statement that you were objecting to here does not use we at all, so defining we is irrelevant. I replied to Josselin who wrote the following: If providing any sort of crap _we_ can

Re: Documentation and Sarge's Release Critical Policy

2003-08-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:29:00AM +0200, Claus Färber wrote: Brian T. Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb/wrote: But since Debian distributes only software, and Invariants must be Secondary... actually, isn't the GNU Manifesto non-secondary

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread MJ Ray
On 2003-08-29 09:44:58 +0100 Fedor Zuev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, MJ Ray wrote: Just a small reminder that you've not presented such a law yet (at all, I think, and definitely not that we've had independently verified). Some treat computer programs differently, but not

Re: Proposed addition to Debian web pages re: GNU FDL

2003-08-29 Thread Walter Landry
Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Nathanael Nerode ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030829 00:05]: Andreas Barth wrote: I don't think it's good manners to try to push a certain view by putting it on the web sites. No, first finish the discussion in d-l, and the you _might_ put additions on the

Re: Inconsistencies in our approach

2003-08-29 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sergey V. Spiridonov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Program (code) is not of great value outside computer, except examples which usually belong to the documentation. I will not buy a book with printed source code of Linux kernel, even if it will be very cheap :) On my bookshelf are a number of

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Andreas Barth
* Branden Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030828 20:35]: On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:50:09AM -0400, Walter Landry wrote: It would be fair to say that Debian has decided that the GFDL is not free according to the DFSG. This opinion has only been getting stronger and more unified over time.

[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

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

2003-08-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : Le ven 29/08/2003 à 10:42, Fedor Zuev a écrit : Of course. You did not know? It is a completely your problem. You probably wanted to say something, but the following explains all: You are not aware? Hey, I know you! You are

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Branden Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:44:57AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: Ya know, I was always sure that or (at your option) any later version header people blindly add to their source would turn out to be a Bad Thing. Imagine... GPLv3 with

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

2003-08-29 Thread Andreas Barth
* Joe Wreschnig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030828 19:50]: On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 03:55, Andreas Barth wrote: So, as a ad-hoc statement it seems to me that the only way in the spirit of the Social Contract is to accept GFDL-docu if certain restrictions are not used (except for a license text, which

Re: Documentation and Sarge's Release Critical Policy

2003-08-29 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:29:00AM +0200, Claus Färber wrote: Brian T. Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb/wrote: But since Debian distributes only software, and Invariants must be Secondary... actually, isn't the GNU Manifesto non-secondary when distributed as part of Debian GNU/Whatever?

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Venres, 29 de Agosto de 2003 ás 11:17:14 +0200, Mathieu Roy escribía: And according to the Debian Social Contract #4, Debian priorities are [Debian] users and Free Software. And Debian's users expect that everything they find in main will have a license that meets certain criteria: the

Re: Licence oddity in Securing Debian Manual

2003-08-29 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Brian T. Sniffen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): True. But I read the phrase This document... explicit permission as saying that Appendix H has a different copyright-owner, and has been separately distributed under the GFDL1.2. The whole work is under the GPL2, as said at the beginning.

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Fedor Zuev
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Joe Moore wrote: Fedor Zuev said: On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, David Starner wrote: Fedor Zuev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes It almost certainly affect the normal use of program and will be unacceptable because of this, not because of mere existence of such code. How does ls

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

2003-08-29 Thread Fedor Zuev
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le lun 25/08/2003 ? 09:22, Fedor Zuev a ?crit : When you try to apply license outside of its scope you should expect to receive funny results. GFDL has a very narrow scope. It is bad. But it is different problem. No, it is exactly one of the

Re: [was A possible GFDL compromise] documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread Jeremy Hankins
Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm even not sure whether it's a problem to have an invariant part in documentation. As my main area of work is History, I'm familiar with books -some kind of documentation- that I cannot change physically but I still can use fully (read, understand...

Re: Inconsistencies in our approach

2003-08-29 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's an overly-expansive view of software. You would include anything that is digital in that description -- audio CDs, DVD movies, off-air TV signals, books on disk, etc. I find it very hard to quantify Beethoven's Ninth Symphony as software, even

Re: Inconsistencies in our approach

2003-08-29 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Lynn Winebarger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oh, but it is artificial. The common usage of software refers only to programs. From WordNet: written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system...

Re: SUN RPC code is DFSG-free

2003-08-29 Thread Andreas Barth
* Jeremy Hankins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030829 18:05]: Fedor Zuev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry. I was very unclear. SUN RPC, extracted from GLIBC is not a work, derived from GLIBC because of above. SUN RPC, extracted from GLIBC is not GLIBC. Because it is not. Therefore,

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wednesday, Aug 27, 2003, at 12:41 US/Eastern, Sergey Spiridonov wrote: According to your statement, any license do not put any restriction on user. It does a copyright law. GPL lifts some limits to restrict users. No. Look at a M$ EULA, for example. It demands things far in excess of

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Sergey V. Spiridonov
Brian T. Sniffen wrote: But this is not useful to your argument, is it? This is because you are wrong. Saying something useless does not poof something useful. -- Best regards, Sergey Spiridonov

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wednesday, Aug 27, 2003, at 15:38 US/Eastern, Brian T. Sniffen wrote: Both of these example licenses offer me a trade: they will permit me to do certain things otherwise forbidden by copyright law (i.e., copy the program onto my computer) This is quite off-topic, but if that is an

Re: SUN RPC code is DFSG-free

2003-08-29 Thread Jeremy Hankins
Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Jeremy Hankins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030829 18:05]: But when I received glibc licensed under the GPL (which includes code derived from Sun RPC) I received it under the terms of the GPL. Technically the Sun RPC license still applies, but the GPL

Re: Freedom to modify other literary work, was: [...GFDL...] documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread Brian T. Sniffen
Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If someone explains you what is free software, do you need to be granted to reuse his speech? You don't: if you understand him, you can regive his speech at the infinite. If I want to actually reuse his speech in either the sense of a recording or

Can I modify the DFSG (and not derive from)?

2003-08-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 04:53:09PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: Yes, and our goal is to always respect authors: by not distributing works that they don't wish to make available under the terms of the DFSG. Including the GPL and the DFSG?

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Brian T. Sniffen
Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jacobo Tarrio [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : O Venres, 29 de Agosto de 2003 ás 16:09:57 +0200, Mathieu Roy escribía: The DFSG itself does not meet the DFSG itself, if you think that no text can be invariant. I believe that you can make modified

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Brian T. Sniffen
Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: paul cannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : On Thu, 28 Aug, 2003 at 06:43:48PM -0500, Rick Moen wrote: ...or (at your [the recipient's] option) any later version. The fact that your refers to the _recipient_ means that Scott's worst-case scenario of

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thursday, Aug 28, 2003, at 01:55 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh. I just now realized, that false accusation that GFDL puts additional restrictions to the user is the root of major part of all that anti-GFDL hype. Would you care to provide evidence of that assertion, or

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

Re: documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian T. Sniffen) a tapoté : Please point out which parts of Emacs documentation are invariant. If I'm not mistaking, these parts express some personal feelings. Personals feelings are not something that can be enhanced by someone else. First, in English, variant

Re: documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
Joe Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : Mathieu Roy said: The same goes from the Ancient tragedies. But it's already perfectly possible to make a remake of any book, story or movie. The ancient tragedies are not protected by copyright. Try making a remake of the Harry Potter books, and

Re: SUN RPC code is DFSG-free

2003-08-29 Thread Jeremy Hankins
Fedor Zuev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Jeremy Hankins wrote: But when I received glibc licensed under the GPL (which includes code derived from Sun RPC) I received it under the terms of the GPL. Technically the Sun RPC license still applies, but the GPL guarantees me that the

Re: documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread Brian T. Sniffen
Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeremy Hankins [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeremy Hankins [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you think we already have the right to modify invariant text in the GFDL?

Re: SUN RPC code is DFSG-free

2003-08-29 Thread Brian T. Sniffen
Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Jeremy Hankins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030829 18:05]: Fedor Zuev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry. I was very unclear. SUN RPC, extracted from GLIBC is not a work, derived from GLIBC because of above. SUN RPC, extracted from GLIBC is not

[pretending to be Re: A possible GFDL compromise] OFF-TOPIC

2003-08-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : Le ven 29/08/2003 à 16:09, Mathieu Roy a écrit : The DFSG itself does not meet the DFSG itself, if you think that no text can be invariant. Do you intend to repeat the whole load of silly things we have read during last week on this list? To

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wednesday, Aug 27, 2003, at 19:51 US/Eastern, Fedor Zuev wrote: Is there a such big difference between copy and make copies? The problem is the restriction on technical measures to control access, not the phrase make copies.

Re: documentation eq software ?

2003-08-29 Thread Jeremy Hankins
Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeremy Hankins [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you think we already have the right to modify invariant text in the GFDL? Yes I do. I can rewrite any idea expressed in any text, invariant or not. rewrite != modify

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