Re: Discussion period: GR: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-11 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Adeodato Simó [Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:31:59 +0100]: But no, you just carried on and ignored my concerns. Thank you, Robert. Let's be more a bit more constructive: you say you act out of alarm by seeing the release team take some decisions for the project. I claim that the Release Team is

Re: Discussion period: GR: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-11 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Lars Wirzenius [Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:42:30 +0200]: ti, 2008-11-11 kello 16:39 +0100, Adeodato Simó kirjoitti: Have you thought for a second, though, that the project as a whole could not agree with you in not sharing that view? It is to determine the will of the project as a whole that we

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny (new proposal)

2008-11-11 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 03:39:40PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: I'm responding to this by proposing the following alternate option: | The Social Contract is our promise to the free software community. | | Neither the Release Team, nor any selected group of individuals, is | empowered to

Re: Discussion period: GR: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-11 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ti, 2008-11-11 kello 16:39 +0100, Adeodato Simó kirjoitti: Have you thought for a second, though, that the project as a whole could not agree with you in not sharing that view? It is to determine the will of the project as a whole that we have the GR process. Until then, it's all speculation.

Re: DFSG violations in Lenny: new proposal

2008-11-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, Nov 10 2008, Ben Hutchings wrote: So far as I can see, the only significant difference between #5 and #2 (or #3) is the requirement that upstream distributes under a license that complies with the DFSG. Yes. Without that clause, one can say we could ship something like nvidia

Re: DFSG violations in Lenny: new proposal

2008-11-11 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Manoj Srivastava dijo [Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:21:21PM -0600]: ,[ Proposal 5: allow Lenny to release with firmware blobs ] | 1. We affirm that our Priorities are our users and the free software | community (Social Contract #4); | | 2. We acknowledge that there is a lot of progress

Re: DFSG violations in Lenny: new proposal

2008-11-11 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:23:26PM +, Matthew Johnson wrote: And that if we release now, the glibc code which we ship will be free shortly, without having to update stable, whereas the code shipped in the kernel won't be free in Lenny, however long we wait (because the solution is to

Re: Discussion period: GR: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-11 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Can someone explain me why all these threads smell of gratuitous RM bashing? Simple statistics: there are many DDs, but only few RMs. Simple sociology: those who are content, don't complain. Those also don't go in

Re: Discussion period: GR: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 05:26:18PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: Yes, your job is only concerned about copying bits. Then again, what isn't? I think this was just rhetoric, wasn't it? Dato mentioned bits to stress that the Release Team only controls what flows from unstable to testing, while you

Re: Discussion period: GR: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-11 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 06:30:56PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 05:26:18PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: But if what you're trying to say is that it's not all your fault as Release Team, I acknowledge that. Then again, it's a really poor excuse to justify

Re: Discussion period: GR: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-11 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Robert Millan [Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:20:06 +0100]: But, at the same time, I don't think the Release Team should be allowed to make this kind of decisions unilaterally. Then we should be having that vote, and nothing else, as I already explained in [1], which you ignored. Release Team can

Re: Discussion period: GR: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-11 Thread Johannes
[forwarding for Sven Luther, unedited and uncensored] [Johannes Wiedersich] On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 07:42:47PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Millan wrote: If the project as a whole determines that the Release Team is empowered to

Re: DFSG violations in Lenny: new proposal

2008-11-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, This email is an excerpt from Sven Luther, sent via private email. Ths is unedited, but incomplete, I have not included the final paragraph of that email, since I could not defend posting that, and this is what I am comfortable sending. The eliding the final paragraph does not, in

Re: DFSG violations in Lenny: new proposal

2008-11-11 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 04:05:42PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: The difference being that the former is being resolved with a license change, and the latter is being resolved with code changes, and will require adjustments to the infrastructure. That makes the former a faster

Re: Discussion period: GR: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-11 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 08:01:02PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: I have to admit that I'm a bit curious how you justify needing a 3:1 supermajority to update a Packages file, but not to have the software in question served in the first place. The basic difference is that in one case it is the

Re: DFSG violations in Lenny: new proposal

2008-11-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 08:30 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Mon, Nov 10 2008, Ben Hutchings wrote: So far as I can see, the only significant difference between #5 and #2 (or #3) is the requirement that upstream distributes under a license that complies with the DFSG. Yes.

Re: Discussion period: GR: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 03:48:01PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 08:01:02PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: I have to admit that I'm a bit curious how you justify needing a 3:1 supermajority to update a Packages file, but not to have the software in question served in the

Re: DFSG violations in Lenny: new proposal

2008-11-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Nov 11 2008, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 08:30 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Mon, Nov 10 2008, Ben Hutchings wrote: So far as I can see, the only significant difference between #5 and #2 (or #3) is the requirement that upstream distributes under a license that

Debian membership GR: intend to call for a vote soon.

2008-11-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, Lucas' amendment has only 4 sponsors, so technically I can start to call for a vote. My position about this amendment is that if it can not get enough sponsors, it does not has chances to win, and as I would prefer that this GR is not a poll, I will not include it by myself. I

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Robert Millan wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 05:47:59PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: With binary blobs inside or outside of debian, my computer will run just the same. It's just that outside main it won't be supported by debian -- at least not officially. It will