Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm current requirements for GR sponsoring

2009-03-26 Thread Robert Millan
or amendments, and for overruling of delegates. = PROPOSAL END I second this. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm the GR process [rescinded]

2009-03-26 Thread Robert Millan
seconded Lucas' amendment in a separate mail, and I'm hereby rescinding my second to Bill's amendment. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm the GR process

2009-03-24 Thread Robert Millan
when in fact it is asserting an opinion. I hope the Secretary will fix this. And if that's too much to ask, then I hope voters will read carefuly and won't fall for such an easy trick. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm the GR process

2009-03-24 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:52:22PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 08:03:46PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: I'd also like to complain about the title text of the initial GR. It is clearly manipulative, as it pretends to be merely describing the proposed changes when

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:17:52AM -0600, Ean Schuessler wrote: - Robert Millan wrote: The majority of developers voted to make an exception for firmware in Lenny. They did NOT vote to empower the Release Team to make exceptions as they see fit. Results of GR 2008/003 are crystal

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 01:12:24AM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: r...@aybabtu.com (Robert Millan) writes: So, what I think would be the honest approach to this problem, is for you to either announce that your interpretation is the way it is because the ballot was flawed ... In my preamble

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 07:13:57PM +0100, Michael Goetze wrote: Robert Millan wrote: - Even if there's a general perception that everyone agrees not to delay Lenny at all costs, this should definitely be voted on and sanctioned. Not doing so creates a very bad precedent. You

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 08:52:13PM +, Matthew Johnson wrote: On Mon Jan 12 19:34, Robert Millan wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 07:13:57PM +0100, Michael Goetze wrote: Robert Millan wrote: - Even if there's a general perception that everyone agrees not to delay Lenny at all

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 02:13:59PM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com writes: I think you mean both option 3 and 4 ranked above FD. I read that as I don't like these options, but if there's no choice, I prefer them over the ambiguity of not making any explicit

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 09:07:12PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com wrote: 4- Bugs which are trivial to fix, such as #459705 (just remove a text file), #483217 (only affects optional functionality that could be removed according to the maintainer

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-12 Thread Robert Millan
firmware) I don't see any correlation. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 05:17:33PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Steve McIntyre said: If things go much further we'll end up with enough seconds to force a vote to hand Robert Millan a nice cup of STFU. I'm hoping that's not what anybody actually wants, but I can

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-12 Thread Robert Millan
by ranking option 2 above option 4. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-12 Thread Robert Millan
with that doesn't change things. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-12 Thread Robert Millan
want. This is far from what one would expect the Secretary to do. If results are really ambigous, or flawed in any way, what he should do is cancel the vote. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:30:02PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 09:26:20PM +, Robert Millan wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 05:17:33PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Steve McIntyre said: If things go much further we'll end up

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 05:47:00PM +, Matthew Johnson wrote: On Mon Jan 12 18:38, Robert Millan wrote: Agreed. Then again, even if Manoj was rightfully appliing super-majority requirements (which I think he was), it has become clear that, in general, such requirements

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 09:14:27PM +, Matthew Johnson wrote: On Mon Jan 12 22:07, Robert Millan wrote: I find this reasonable, in general, for minor issues. But it's worth noting that in this occasion, the developers didn't feel it was necessary to delegate this responsibility

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:42:12AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 08:37:06AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: I know you didn't explicitly request being appointed Secretary; it sort of happened by accident, but you had the opportunity to refuse all the time, so I must take

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-12 Thread Robert Millan
lost count on how many times I repeated that, but will do as long as necessary. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-12 Thread Robert Millan
the vote was flawed; Again, if the vote was flawed (I don't think it was, but if the Secretary considers it flawed), the right thing would be to cancel it. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:52:04PM +0100, Michael Goetze wrote: Robert Millan wrote: This is far from what one would expect the Secretary to do. If results are really ambigous, or flawed in any way, what he should do is cancel the vote. And I'm sure you would have been the first one

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 09:54:43PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Robert Millan said: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 09:14:27PM +, Matthew Johnson wrote: On Mon Jan 12 22:07, Robert Millan wrote: I find this reasonable, in general, for minor issues. But it's worth

I give up (for the time being)

2009-01-12 Thread Robert Millan
it because I expect we can have a healthy discussion about it after Lenny is released. Best wishes to everyone, -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-11 Thread Robert Millan
. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-11 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:32:10AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: Do you have any other idea in mind? Btw, Joerg, that goes for you too. If you have something constructive to say, this would be a good time. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-11 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:03:45AM +, Matthew Johnson wrote: On Sun Jan 11 10:56, Robert Millan wrote: On the other hand, it appears that the Secretary, the DPL and the Release Team don't like that we made an exception ONLY for firmware. As per your reply I will assume you're also

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-11 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 01:06:21PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 08:22:58AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: You're the Secretary. You're supposed to give answers, not speculation. If the ballot was ambigous, or confusing, it is YOUR responsibility. It has to be said

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-11 Thread Robert Millan
to freedom, a democratic system and a set of principles. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-11 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 01:14:08PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:03:45AM +, Matthew Johnson wrote: On Sun Jan 11 10:56, Robert Millan wrote: On the other hand, it appears that the Secretary, the DPL and the Release Team don't like that we made an exception

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-11 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 08:22:58AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: You're the Secretary. You're supposed to give answers, not speculation. If the ballot was ambigous, or confusing, it is YOUR responsibility. Bdale, After sleeping over this, I really think I've been unnecesarily harsh

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-10 Thread Robert Millan
, but not for the rest of Debian. - The developers are implicitly endorsing an exception for the rest of Debian packages. Please, could you send a new message clarifiing the situation, and your judgement as Secretary? Thanks! -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-10 Thread Robert Millan
on the fact that option 2 defeats both of them? -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-10 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 05:48:33PM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 01:04 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: What you describe sounds like option 3, or maybe option 4. What is your opinion on the fact that option 2 defeats both of them? I'm not sure I agree with your sense

Re: RFC: General resolution: Clarify the status of the social contract

2008-12-21 Thread Robert Millan
that it actually has the intended effect. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-19 Thread Robert Millan
in this mail, nor make me feel that his decisions as secretary are somehow illegitimate. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data

Re: RFC: General resolution: Clarify the status of the social contract

2008-12-19 Thread Robert Millan
operations of Debian, except in so far as it | influences individual contributors' actions. ` How does this differ from the previous one in practice? -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's

Re: Bundled votes and the secretary

2008-12-13 Thread Robert Millan
the Secretary for your mistakes, he's just doing his job. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all

Re: Bundled votes and the secretary

2008-12-13 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:38:34AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: [...], and frankly I see no reason that we as a project should even honor the outcome of a vote on this ballot as presented. I think you meant to say we as the Release Team. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data

Call for vote (Re: call for seconds: on firmware)

2008-12-10 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 07:45:05PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 09:18:03AM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: Feel free to propose an amendment. I might accept it. I propose the following ammendment: [...] Since there was no further reply on this proposed ammendment

Re: call for seconds: on firmware

2008-12-04 Thread Robert Millan
/strong/p + pThe license must allow modifications and derived works, and + must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your

Re: Dwindling popularity

2008-12-01 Thread Robert Millan
appreciate his contribution. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: call for seconds: on firmware

2008-12-01 Thread Robert Millan
passed, and due to the urgency of the situation I don't want to wait much longer before calling for vote. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-17 Thread Robert Millan
is already scheduled. Whatever we decide now, it will be by consensus. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-17 Thread Robert Millan
source code from being distributed under a free license. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all

Re: Discussion: granting discretion to release team (was: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny)

2008-11-17 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:10:07AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: I would welcome a more permanent answer to the firmware question, really, I'm not really pleased with the trolls that arise on the subject prior to every release. May I ask who are those trolls you refer to? -- Robert Millan

Re: call for seconds: on firmware

2008-11-17 Thread Robert Millan
to disambiguigate it, like we did in GR 2004 / 003, or even in GR 2003 / 003. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2008/11/msg00039.html -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom

Re: call for seconds: on firmware

2008-11-17 Thread Robert Millan
the Social Contract is not allowed anywhere in the project, not just in stable releases. The fact that other participants did (either intentionally or unintentionally) is by no means an excuse for the Release Team to do the same. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us

Re: Proposed wording for the SC modification

2008-11-17 Thread Robert Millan
] http://www.debian.org/vote/2003/gr_sec415_tally.txt [2] http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/gr_non_free_tally.txt -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you

Re: Proposed wording for the SC modification

2008-11-17 Thread Robert Millan
firmware is not unanimous. This would have to be resolved in some way, too. Either with a new vote, or by adding a new option to this ballot. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your

Re: on firmware (possible proposal)

2008-11-16 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 04:39:04PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Robert Millan said: If we get closer to the free side, and provide a 100% free main like we used to, When precisely was that? Yeah, it's funny. We never did. Let us say, like we used to promise

Re: on firmware (possible proposal)

2008-11-16 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:14:30PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Robert Millan said: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 04:32:08PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: It often can, though. You can't really tell if the firmware for your network card is using DMA to send

Re: on firmware (possible proposal)

2008-11-16 Thread Robert Millan
really help much. Can you? Would you explain how? (and no, I run wireshark in my gateway and dig through several GiBs of data doesn't really tell me anything) -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's

Re: on firmware (possible proposal)

2008-11-15 Thread Robert Millan
they care about freedom, even if they sacrifice their beliefs for practical reasons, and install non-free software. But when they do, they want to know they did. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's

Re: on firmware (possible proposal)

2008-11-14 Thread Robert Millan
software has very little to do with the desirability of freedom of software. It often can, though. You can't really tell if the firmware for your network card is using DMA to send away your private data in unaccounted frames. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We

Re: For our own good: splitting the vote. Thoughts?

2008-11-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 09:56:06AM +, Neil McGovern wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 01:23:42PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On the contrary. It is excess of overlapping options that prompt for strategic voting. For example, if I don't care much between option A and option B

Re: on firmware (possible proposal)

2008-11-14 Thread Robert Millan
that. Why not refer to it as microcode instead? This is far less ambigous, as microcontroller is a more specific term than processor. Also, I was asked to s/BLOB/blob/ which seems fine to me too. May I suggest so-called \blobs\ or some indication that blob is an informal term? -- Robert Millan

Re: on firmware (possible proposal)

2008-11-13 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 04:20:33PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-11-12 15:29]: For example, if you want to install Debian on an NSLU, the only difficulty is finding the unofficial D-I images that include non-free firmware. And even that can

Re: For our own good: splitting the vote. Thoughts?

2008-11-13 Thread Robert Millan
: [3]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2008/11/msg00086.html -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access

Re: on firmware (possible proposal)

2008-11-13 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:49:44PM +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:29:30PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: For example, if you want to install Debian on an NSLU, the only difficulty is finding the unofficial D-I images that include non-free firmware. And even

Re: For our own good: splitting the vote. Thoughts?

2008-11-13 Thread Robert Millan
] http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2008/11/msg00086.html -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-12 Thread Robert Millan
. If the project grants them an exception to release Lenny (like we did for Sarge and Etch), I'll support that too. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow

Re: Discussion period: GR: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-12 Thread Robert Millan
with the hope that the project will agree with at least one of the options (remember, I proposed 3 very different options). Of course I don't know for sure. If we could read everyone's minds we wouldn't need a voting process after all. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs

Re: Discussion period: GR: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-12 Thread Robert Millan
. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Discussion period: GR: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-12 Thread Robert Millan
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 make exceptions to SC #1 as they see fit, I would accept it [1]. Please

Re: on firmware (possible proposal)

2008-11-12 Thread Robert Millan
. And even that can be improved. They could be linked from the main website, and integrated with our infrastructure, much like we do for non-free, as long as we make it clear they're not officially Debian. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how

Re: DFSG violations in Lenny: new proposal

2008-11-11 Thread Robert Millan
is to remove/replace it) Usually true, but not always so. See #494010. Which is taking surprisingly long to be fixed. Makes me wonder what best effort truly means... -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data

Re: Discussion period: GR: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-11 Thread Robert Millan
to justify more of the same. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-10 Thread Robert Millan
hardware than official builds, since almost nobody uses pure Debian on a NSLU (network requires a USB dongle). Whether it's harder to install or not, it depends on you. We don't have a foundation document saying it must be. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-09 Thread Robert Millan
to present me as. Proof is written. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-09 Thread Robert Millan
continue mean in this phrase? Are you trying to imply that the release team is _already_ empowered to make decisions that override SC #1? - If you are, why is it not explicit? - If you're not, then please remove the continue from that phrase. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your

Re: Call for seconds: post-Lenny enforceability of DFSG violations

2008-11-09 Thread Robert Millan
, not because a few, chosen ones, decide it unilaterally. Whether the project decides that we need an exception that overrides SC #1 for the Nth time or not, that's a secondary problem as far as I'm concerned. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-09 Thread Robert Millan
, not that of the project. Therefore, it doesn't belong in this GR to assert that Lenny will be delayed indefinitely. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow

Re: Consequences for the lenny release, was: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-10-30 Thread Robert Millan
until they are fixed. Is my understanding correct? Yes (except that option 2 is not more Robert's than option 3 is). -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-10-30 Thread Robert Millan
majority) -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Call for seconds: post-Lenny enforceability of DFSG violations

2008-10-29 Thread Robert Millan
the NEW queue. Not to say we can't pass the GR, but I would much rather see something that does not step on those toes. Hi Peter, ACK about your concerns (and the ones pointed by others, which are roughly the same). Do you have any suggestion on what would be a better approach? -- Robert

Re: Call for seconds - DC concept (was: Possible amendment for Debian Contributors concept)

2008-10-29 Thread Robert Millan
decided by a general | resolution. Seconded. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. signature.asc

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-10-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:54:35PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Monday 27 October 2008 20:36, Robert Millan wrote: - We give priority to the timely release of Lenny over sorting every bit out - for this reason, we will - treat removal of sourceless firmware as a best

Re: Call for seconds: post-Lenny enforceability of DFSG violations

2008-10-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:09:58PM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ACK about your concerns (and the ones pointed by others, which are roughly the same). Do you have any suggestion on what would be a better approach? How about dropping the GR

Re: Call for seconds: post-Lenny enforceability of DFSG violations

2008-10-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:35:36PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: [me] Is this intended to bypass the NEW process currently done by ftpmasters any time something is added to non-free? [Robert Millan] ACK about your concerns (and the ones pointed by others, which are roughly

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 07:27:24PM -0700, Jeff Carr wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:19, Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a reason why those interested in supporting blob-dependant hardware can't make a release that includes those blobs? As per SC #1 they can't refer

Re: Call for seconds: Suspension of the changes of the Project's membership procedures.

2008-10-27 Thread Robert Millan
have no clue about what they imply, and will most likely not vote or send a no-op ballot. [1] or members, or people with voting rights, whatever.. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening

Re: Call for seconds: Suspension of the changes of the Project's membership procedures.

2008-10-27 Thread Robert Millan
(and in fact I just did). -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Call for seconds: Revised ballot

2008-10-27 Thread Robert Millan
, and will send a new mail with all of them, asking seconders to pick a subset if they want. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data

Re: Call for seconds: Revised ballot

2008-10-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:07:10AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:05:34AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Moin, On Saturday 25 October 2008 20:31, Robert Millan wrote: When ever a package in Debian is found to have been violating the DFSG for 60 days or more

Re: Call for seconds: Revised ballot

2008-10-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 04:07:41PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:07:10AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:05:34AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Moin, On Saturday 25 October 2008 20:31, Robert Millan wrote: When ever a package in Debian

Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-10-27 Thread Robert Millan
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Call for seconds: post-Lenny enforceability of DFSG violations

2008-10-27 Thread Robert Millan
before the package + can be moved back into Debian. + /p /li listrongWe will give back to the free software community/strong p (Since this option ammends the SC, I believe it would require 3:1 majority) -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-10-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:55:56AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Mon, Oct 27 2008, Robert Millan wrote: Option 2 (allow Lenny to release with propietary firmware) ~~ 1. We affirm that our Priorities are our users

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-10-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 08:22:57PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Robert Millan wrote: 4. We give priority to the timely release of Lenny over sorting every bit out; for this reason, we will treat removal of sourceless firmware as a best-effort

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-10-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 08:36:06PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: (Also, isn't we allow sourceless firmware ... as long as the license complies with the DFSG a no-op?) The license for a sourceless blob can be GPL or BSD, which are licenses that comply with the DFSG, or it could be any sort

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-10-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:04:33PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: I propose the following alternatative to Option 2 (removes last sentence): Or rather, I propose the following alternative which incorporates Manoj's rewritten #2 (in addition to removing the last sentence in #4): Option 2 (allow

Re: Call for seconds: Revised ballot

2008-10-26 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:05:34AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Moin, On Saturday 25 October 2008 20:31, Robert Millan wrote: When ever a package in Debian is found to have been violating the DFSG for 60 days or more besides that this proposal still has at least the problem of who

Re: Proposed amendment: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-26 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:32:52AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le samedi 25 octobre 2008 à 20:26 +0200, Robert Millan a écrit : I'd appreciate if you don't use a GR procedure for that, though, it makes us look like a bunch of clowns. it makes us look like a bunch of clowns. look

Re: Call for seconds: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-26 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 02:00:27PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Robert Millan] + p + When ever a package in Debian is found to have been violating the + Debian Free Software Guidelines/cite/q for 60 days or more, and + none of the solutions that have been implemented

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-25 Thread Robert Millan
be useful too. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Proposed amendment: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-25 Thread Robert Millan
of fact, if you want to send chocolate to Ben I second that too. I'd appreciate if you don't use a GR procedure for that, though, it makes us look like a bunch of clowns. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data

Call for seconds: Revised ballot

2008-10-25 Thread Robert Millan
of progress has been made, and we are almost to the point where we can provide a free version of the Debian operating system, we will delay the release of Lenny until such point that the work to free the operating system is complete. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy

Re: Call for seconds: Suspension of the changes of the Project's membership procedures.

2008-10-25 Thread Robert Millan
. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Call for seconds: Resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Robert Millan
over sorting every bit out; for this reason, we will treat fixing of DFSG violations as a best-effort process. (Since this option ammends the SC, I believe it would require 3:1 majority) -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when

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