Draft GR: Simplification of license and copyright requirements for the Debian packages.

2010-01-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, a significant part of the time dedicated to make and update Debian packages is spent in making an exhaustive inventory of the copyright attributions of the distributed work, and to clean the upstream original sources from files that have no impact on the binary packages we distribute.

Re: Draft GR: Simplification of license and copyright requirements for the Debian packages.

2010-01-24 Thread Kurt Roeckx
Please sign your message if you want to propose a GR. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Draft GR: Simplification of license and copyright requirements for the Debian packages.

2010-01-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:47:41PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Dear all, a significant part of the time dedicated to make and update Debian packages is spent in making an exhaustive inventory of the copyright attributions of the distributed work, and to clean the upstream original sources

Re: Draft GR: Simplification of license and copyright requirements for the Debian packages.

2010-01-24 Thread Ben Finney
Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org writes: I'm not saying I agree or disagree, but does this really really really need a GR? If it could be arranged, a way to avoid the GR would be to have the ftpmasters publicly express (ideally in this discussion thread) their position in agreement with one

Re: Draft GR: Simplification of license and copyright requirements for the Debian packages.

2010-01-24 Thread MJ Ray
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org [...] my personal conclusion that this time could be better spent for other efforts. I therefore propose to make these practices optional. Since it is a major change in our traditions, I propose to make a GR to make sure that there is a consensus. As will

Re: Draft GR: Simplification of license and copyright requirements for the Debian packages.

2010-01-24 Thread MJ Ray
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org Le Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:56:36PM +, MJ Ray a écrit : Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org According to our social contract, “We promise that the Debian system and all its components will be free according to [the DFSG].” [...] Wow, that's a

Re: Draft GR: Simplification of license and copyright requirements for the Debian packages.

2010-01-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:42:07AM +, MJ Ray a écrit : Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org H Le Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:56:36PM +, MJ Ray a écrit : Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org According to our social contract, “We promise that the Debian system and all its components

Re: Draft GR: Simplification of license and copyright requirements for the Debian packages.

2010-01-24 Thread Luk Claes
Charles Plessy wrote: Le Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:42:07AM +, MJ Ray a écrit : Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org H Le Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:56:36PM +, MJ Ray a écrit : Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org According to our social contract, “We promise that the Debian system and all its

[OT] Re: Draft GR: Simplification of license and copyright requirements for the Debian packages.

2010-01-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 08:28:01AM +0100, Luk Claes a écrit : And who in their right mind do you expect to vote for ignoring DFSG non-freeness, people that want to leave the project? For the record, I will not answer in this thread to other posts that are insulting, question people's mental

Re: [OT] Re: Draft GR: Simplification of license and copyright requirements for the Debian packages.

2010-01-24 Thread Luk Claes
Charles Plessy wrote: Le Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 08:28:01AM +0100, Luk Claes a écrit : And who in their right mind do you expect to vote for ignoring DFSG non-freeness, people that want to leave the project? For the record, I will not answer in this thread to other posts that are insulting,