Re: Authority and procedures of debian-legal

2005-02-06 Thread Andreas Barth
, people having authority to decide (maintainers of package, ftp-master, ...) may (and do) use discussion results from here. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo

2005-02-27 Thread Andreas Barth
script which converts a sort of custom #defined MAGIC_NUMBERs to id numbers, and then removes the #definitions. Is there some proof that the files are created that way, or is this just your assumptation? Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45

Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo

2005-03-01 Thread Andreas Barth
, anyone is free to pick up their favourite ones. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo

2005-03-01 Thread Andreas Barth
of for unmaintainability is no service to our users but instead does lock them into low quality code which can only be modified at high costs if at all. They would be able to say it, but they don't. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1

Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo

2005-03-03 Thread Andreas Barth
about it at all. Again, it's not the case that you've the absolute truth. Even if you don't like it. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo

2005-03-05 Thread Andreas Barth
* Andrew Suffield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050305 11:50]: You need to go talk to DWN and the anti-freedom advocates, who are the Whom of your fellow co-developers do you consider as anti-freedeom advocates? Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C

gif-creating applications?

2003-08-08 Thread Andreas Barth
better if you would Cc me on replies. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

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

2003-08-25 Thread Andreas Barth
it complies to DFSG 8. (That I would like another license more is not topic of discussion. Topic is whether the RPC-code complies to DFSG, or if distribution glibc is a RC-bug.) Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

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

2003-08-28 Thread Andreas Barth
by law). However, don't expect me to back this up. There is nothing which can IMHO be used as basis, because the DFSG cannot really apply (see above). And opinion is not a good basis for a discussion. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C

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

2003-08-28 Thread Andreas Barth
.) Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

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

2003-08-28 Thread Andreas Barth
* MJ Ray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030828 12:50]: On 2003-08-28 09:55:58 +0100 Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comment: documentation is not software, and DFSG is made with software in mind. [...] Please read http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200308/msg00690.html

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

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-08-29 Thread Andreas Barth
hours from now if I'm still awake. 5% (means: the conclusion is to at least 95% true, and to less than 5% false) to make a probably, 1% to settle it. In reality I often accept also a 2:1 majority. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C

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: SUN RPC code is DFSG-free

2003-08-29 Thread Andreas Barth
for this permission? Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: documentation eq software ?

2003-08-30 Thread Andreas Barth
of manuals is to make them? Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: UnrealIRCd License (Click-Through issue)

2003-09-02 Thread Andreas Barth
to this case. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: UnrealIRCd License (Click-Through issue)

2003-09-02 Thread Andreas Barth
* Andrew Suffield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030902 19:20]: On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:47:53AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: And: I don't know international law good enough to decide if (and when) german law is applicable to software in debian. It is certainly applicable between any german user

Re: Some licensing questions regarding celestia

2003-09-03 Thread Andreas Barth
), and almost anything else also. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Some licensing questions regarding celestia

2003-09-06 Thread Andreas Barth
statement is not true for parts of this world (but it may be true for other parts of the world). For example in Germany you're always making a contract, even with GPL. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-07 Thread Andreas Barth
different works.) So, the GPL is not a tool against DRM, but for unrestricted changeability - where a DRM does not make great sense. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

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

2003-09-07 Thread Andreas Barth
_do_ ship stable with this issue. Now, and if no-one is asking sun or producing code, also in two month, and in a year, ... Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Some licensing questions regarding celestia

2003-09-07 Thread Andreas Barth
* Rick Moen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030907 07:05]: Quoting Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): You are mistaken. Your statement is not true for parts of this world (but it may be true for other parts of the world). For example in Germany you're always making a contract, even with GPL. I have

Re: Some licensing questions regarding celestia

2003-09-07 Thread Andreas Barth
be a serious breach of his contract with B. The same is valid for other licenses that allow re-distribution, even if they do not say it as plainly as GPL. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

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

2003-09-07 Thread Andreas Barth
could be clarified with Sun or someone stands up right now to actually write the code. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-07 Thread Andreas Barth
of obfuscating the source.) Think of the DRM-version of the binary and the non-DRM-version as the source. It is certain legal to give away binaries (aka DRM-enabled versions) as long as you also provide access to the source. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1

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

2003-09-08 Thread Andreas Barth
* Branden Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030908 02:35]: On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 12:03:41PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: I would say that replacal of the Sun-code should be a release goal for sarge+1, except if the matter could be clarified with Sun or someone stands up right now to actually

Re: Some licensing questions regarding celestia

2003-09-08 Thread Andreas Barth
when looking at a detail). Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Some licensing questions regarding celestia

2003-09-08 Thread Andreas Barth
of GPL-software. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

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

2003-09-08 Thread Andreas Barth
wasted. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

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

2003-09-08 Thread Andreas Barth
* Branden Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030908 18:05]: On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 01:34:54PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: This would lead to the following code in stable (whichever release name stable is, release name in []): now Oct 03 Dez 03 Oct 04 1 sun[woody] sun

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

2003-09-09 Thread Andreas Barth
://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-09 Thread Andreas Barth
into main. [Footnote: I do accept an adequate timeframe for removal, but that's just a: Handle everything with care. It doesn't change that it must be removed in long term.] Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-09 Thread Andreas Barth
needs some ugly tricks, and perhaps it would be better to create a new archive non-free-installers for this (and similar code). Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-09 Thread Andreas Barth
. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-09 Thread Andreas Barth
* Mathieu Roy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030909 13:50]: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : * Mathieu Roy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030909 11:20]: Not *in* Debian, but *shipped by* Debian. For you, there's no distinction between GNU Emacs manual and Macromedia Flash? There is exactly one

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-09 Thread Andreas Barth
* Mathieu Roy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030909 13:50]: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : * Mathieu Roy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030909 11:20]: And it leads me to another question for the list: when thinking about the GFDL, the answer from the list is 'the GFDL is not DFSG-compliant

Re: old and new GNU documentation licenses, and the some of the manuals to which they apply

2003-09-09 Thread Andreas Barth
that has in it's license that it must not be used to display non-free web sites would be non-free itself - DFSG #5,6. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-09 Thread Andreas Barth
* Mathieu Roy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030909 16:05]: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : But: Most of the mails here are not copyright-able at all, and thus have no license status and can be included everywhere and even in main. Really? If I send a script in a email without license

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-09 Thread Andreas Barth
* Mathieu Roy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030909 16:05]: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : We have the DFSG for exactly this reasons: We (meaning the Debian Project) can't decide what software is allowed in main by personal preference, independent whether it's mine, the of the DPL

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-09 Thread Andreas Barth
* Mathieu Roy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030909 16:20]: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : * Mathieu Roy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030909 13:50]: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : Sorry, but there is certainly non-free software that provide freedom equally to GFDL

Consensus: GFDL is not DFSG-free (was: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-09 Thread Andreas Barth
* Mathieu Roy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030909 16:05]: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : And the DFSG draw a sharp line: Either a package matches the DFSG, then it could be part of Debian, and be uploaded to main. Or a package doesn't match. Then it can't be part of main

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-09 Thread Andreas Barth
* Mathieu Roy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030909 18:20]: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : qmail allowes to be transfered over ssh, GFDLed docu not. I said equally, not exactly same license on purpose. Please start reading. So basically you're still debating with the encrypted issue

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-11 Thread Andreas Barth
) in the sense of the DFSG. (That's called context. In my referenced mail I even said explicit what I mean by the words free and non-free, as I defined them, in the hope that even you won't missunderstand them.) Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45

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

2003-09-11 Thread Andreas Barth
, it should be ok (if seeing Linux Wine as the OS, and not Linux). Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-11 Thread Andreas Barth
_also_ on orange peels is ok, but not _only_ on orange peels. The DFSG say that software must allow the also. The GFDL disallows the also. The GPL just forbids the only. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-11 Thread Andreas Barth
by definition)? Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-11 Thread Andreas Barth
is not the right thing to measure, now GFDL is not free according to DFSG. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-12 Thread Andreas Barth
sections. That's really end of discussion. If this clear wordings stands also for the FSF, than there is nothing how the manuals can become free. So, just EOD. Sorry. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Mathieu Roy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030912 10:20]: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : * Richard Stallman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030912 02:20]: I considered this possibility in the 1980s, not as an option but rather as a potential problem. So I developed a method to make sure

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Mathieu Roy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030912 11:50]: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : become free in the sense of Debian. And that means: free according to the DFSG. Hum, you mean in the sense of the Debian Free _SOFTWARE_ Guidelines? Perhaps you should read the Social Contract

Re: GFDL compromise - Deadend.

2003-09-12 Thread Andreas Barth
an supplement to your very true mail.] Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Common software (was: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal)

2003-09-14 Thread Andreas Barth
, that's really a nice term. I like it at first sight much more than free software or open source software. (I'm a German, but may have read too many english books.) Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-15 Thread Andreas Barth
.) Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Anthony DeRobertis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030915 17:35]: On Saturday, Sep 13, 2003, at 03:47 US/Eastern, Andreas Barth wrote: That delivering only on such a medium is not ok according to GPL, is obvious. It's also obvious that such a medium is not nice. GPL 6 doesn't say that you may place

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-15 Thread Andreas Barth
distinction) could be worked out. Yes. But even with this one show stopper I would welcome it if the FSF is fixing the bugs. Because at the end it would make their license better (even if we can't include the manuals in debian then). Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-16 Thread Andreas Barth
this enforcing bit of software. However, you're free to take the source and remove this restrictions. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: draft GFDL position statement?

2003-09-16 Thread Andreas Barth
-- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: [OT] Suing for hot coffee [Was: Re: UnrealIRCd License (Click-Through issue)]

2003-09-20 Thread Andreas Barth
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Re: [OT] Suing for hot coffee

2003-09-21 Thread Andreas Barth
to drink the coffee immediately. See http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-21 Thread Andreas Barth
-technical sections are ok. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-21 Thread Andreas Barth
* MJ Ray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030921 19:55]: On 2003-09-21 17:43:46 +0100 Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here you are: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-doc.html That is the RMS essay Free Software and Free Manuals not the GNU Free Documentation Definition. An opinion essay

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-22 Thread Andreas Barth
with it. So, it's not true that all people using software as programms are doing it to get better arguments. There are some people that do it, especially if they are not able to adjust their usage of a word to the meaning that's common here. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP

Re: There was never a chance of a GFDL compromise

2003-09-22 Thread Andreas Barth
to modify. We require that from each software vendor, and also from the FSF. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-22 Thread Andreas Barth
* Mathieu Roy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030922 08:02]: I do not see either why RMS's political essays should be free in the DFSG-sense either, even when included in a documentation. Because we require them to be free if we include them in Debian? Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-22 Thread Andreas Barth
* MJ Ray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030922 10:03]: On 2003-09-22 07:33:48 +0100 Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, but at least I understood software at start of discussion more as a synonym to programms, but I'm not a native english speaker. I am sorry that software has been

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-22 Thread Andreas Barth
* Mathieu Roy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030922 11:40]: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : * Mathieu Roy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030922 08:02]: I do not see either why RMS's political essays should be free in the DFSG-sense either, even when included in a documentation. Because we

How to avoid missunderstandings (was: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal)

2003-09-22 Thread Andreas Barth
* MJ Ray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030922 11:26]: On 2003-09-22 09:27:52 +0100 Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. However, as software is a so fundamental term to Debian, it would perhaps be better to make an appropriate (semi-)official statement anywhere. It seems a little odd

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-22 Thread Andreas Barth
, that's all. We're here in debian-legal. That means, it's not about the personal view, but about the view of debian, and the cause for us discussing is in finding the common view. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-22 Thread Andreas Barth
: The Social Contract (and the DFSG) say that all software in Debian must be 100% free. So, the answer for Debian is: Every software. However, everybody is allowed to do it different. He just shouldn't try to urge his non-free software into Debian. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-25 Thread Andreas Barth
* Mathieu Roy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030923 08:51]: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : Now, then next question is very clear for debian-legal: The Social Contract (and the DFSG) say that all software in Debian must be 100% free. So, the answer for Debian is: Every software. I think

Re: GFDL

2003-09-26 Thread Andreas Barth
to be removed from the manual. Others have (it appears) said the same thing. What about making the text modifiable? Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: FSF has stopped linking to Debian website

2003-09-27 Thread Andreas Barth
encourages the usage of non-free documentation. So, it's obvious who has more reasons to remove something. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: RFC: GPL plus securities industry disclaimer suitable for main?

2003-10-04 Thread Andreas Barth
. As a German citizen, you cannot release anything into the public domain (short of being dead for 70 years). Some of your rights as an author 60 years for works being published during lifetime. are inherently untransferable. except by Last Will. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas

Re: RFC: GPL plus securities industry disclaimer suitable for main?

2003-10-04 Thread Andreas Barth
* Florian Weimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031004 10:53]: Andreas Barth wrote: Online distribution of copyrighted works is known since 1995 (in the legal sense, at least that's the year that is mentioned in all such discussions). Sorry, but that's not totally true. There was substantial

Re: RFC: GPL plus securities industry disclaimer suitable for main?

2003-10-05 Thread Andreas Barth
* Claus Färber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031005 20:57]: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb/wrote: Sorry, but that's not totally true. There was substantial distribution via modem networks before (e.g. Fido). IMHO this is equivalent to distribution over internet. According to German law

Re: Proposal for clarification of DFSG.1

2003-11-03 Thread Andreas Barth
it clearer that it's necessary to allow _both_ ways. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: non-free firmware: driver in main or contrib?

2004-10-14 Thread Andreas Barth
the DFSG. In my opinion, we should decide to draw the line at runs on the host cpu. Of course, your opinion might differ, and it's as much based on the SC as mine. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

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

2004-10-19 Thread Andreas Barth
?) If icc is required for that application, than it needs to go to contrib. If not, please compile it with gcc. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: mass bug filing for unmet dependencies (Was: firmware status for eagle-usb-*)

2004-10-28 Thread Andreas Barth
* Michael Poole ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041028 07:25]: [...] I hope you don't really mean it. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: mass bug filing for unmet dependencies (Was: firmware status for eagle-usb-*)

2004-10-28 Thread Andreas Barth
reason changes my mind. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: What constitutes a package for Policy

2004-02-04 Thread Andreas Barth
in recommended packages by default. I understood the same, and also understood that Suggests should be handled via a Enhances-entry at the non-free package. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Patent issues

2004-02-18 Thread Andreas Barth
idea. Even if release would be some days before 7 July, I think it would be good to move it after that date. This would make some software free, and would solve some RC-bugs. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1

Re: Patent issues

2004-02-19 Thread Andreas Barth
-nonfree (generating .gifs). That's what I meant with the above. And I'd really like to move the gif-generating code to main before sarge - however, I'm waiting for patent expiry (speaking that as maintainer of netpbm-nonfree). Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5

Re: crypto in non-free (again)

2004-02-28 Thread Andreas Barth
. RSA has expired. But you'll need to make sure that this was the only issue. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: If DFSG apply to non-software, is GPL*L* incompatible with DFSG?

2004-02-28 Thread Andreas Barth
not be there (as we would also be force to delivere the exact copy of the GPL). And a difference that makes no difference is no difference (courtesy to Spock). So, this is ok. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: nmap licensing claims

2004-03-06 Thread Andreas Barth
either a policial statement (also known as FUD), or it's just telling what the GPL Section 4 says itselfs. So, in neither case, it changes anything of the GPL. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Tracking -legal decisions [Was: Re: DRAFT summary of the OPL; feedback requested]

2004-03-09 Thread Andreas Barth
. licenses.debian.org? I've been meaning to take a closer look at doing this soon, but unfortunatly, my research has been eating up what little time I possess. Well, I can try to invest a little bit time into this. Thank you for your work. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP

Re: Bug#239952: kernel-source-2.6.4: qla2xxx contains non-free firmware

2004-03-25 Thread Andreas Barth
of the code (then they _are_ the source code), or are they just a result of a compiler run, and nobody will edit them (then they're not). Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Is license text copyrightable? [was: Re: Is OSL 2.0 compliant with DFSG?]

2004-04-11 Thread Andreas Barth
) are not copyrightable. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: please release sarge instead of removing binary firmware

2004-04-16 Thread Andreas Barth
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Re: please release sarge instead of removing binary firmware

2004-04-16 Thread Andreas Barth
* Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au) [040416 14:10]: [-devel dropped] On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 11:00:08AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: * Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au) [040416 10:25]: Because when you have a compile-time dependency you create a derived work -- vmlinuz

Re: DRAFT d-l summary of the OSL v2.0

2004-04-22 Thread Andreas Barth
of endeavour, and we can't discriminate against it, or else no Debian user can produce proprietary software. Of course we can discriminate - like the GPL does. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: DRAFT d-l summary of the OSL v2.0

2004-04-23 Thread Andreas Barth
* Humberto Massa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040423 00:25]: @ 22/04/2004 18:26 : wrote Andreas Barth : Of course we can discriminate - like the GPL does. no, no, the GPL discriminates what you do with the specific piece of software you are redistributing or its derived works, not if you

Re: DRAFT d-l summary of the OSL v2.0

2004-04-23 Thread Andreas Barth
of non-freeness we come across. I learned during university that any system which is not conflicting itself has gaps in it. As the DFSG are not conflicting itself Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: RFC: Debian License Information on www.debian.org

2004-04-30 Thread Andreas Barth
of the three example licenses GPL, BSD and artistic, so that we can add these also on this page. Also, Frank is about to summarize older discussions. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Draft Debian-legal summary of the LGPL

2004-05-11 Thread Andreas Barth
/share/common-licenses, so I ommited the full reference Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Draft Debian-legal summary of the LGPL

2004-05-12 Thread Andreas Barth
the old stuff. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: DFSG#10 [was: Re: Draft Debian-legal summary of the LGPL]

2004-05-19 Thread Andreas Barth
not a bug, then don't fix it. We have enough problems with unnecessary changes to the SC, so please leave DFSG#10 alone. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Draft Summary: MPL is not DFSG free

2004-06-13 Thread Andreas Barth
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