On Jan 13, 2004, at 08:25, Dale E Martin wrote:
5. Programs that don't meet our free-software standards
Should this say Software that doesn't instead?
Perhaps I missed this in all of the GFDL discussions of the past, but
does
documentation == software?
No, not all software is documentation.
On Jan 13, 2004, at 08:25, Dale E Martin wrote:
5. Programs that don't meet our free-software standards
Should this say Software that doesn't instead?
Perhaps I missed this in all of the GFDL discussions of the past, but
does
documentation == software?
No, not all software is
However, if that's not clear to people, the proper place to address that
question would be in the DFSG.
That's a very good point, agreed.
Dale
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However, if that's not clear to people, the proper place to address that
question would be in the DFSG.
That's a very good point, agreed.
Dale
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On 2004-01-13 13:25:52 + Dale E Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
5. Programs that don't meet our free-software standards
Should this say Software that doesn't instead?
Perhaps I missed this in all of the GFDL discussions of the past, but
does
documentation == software? [...]
No, but
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 08:25:52AM -0500, Dale E Martin wrote:
Perhaps I missed this in all of the GFDL discussions of the past, but does
documentation == software? If we're cleaning up the social contract, I
wonder if we need to go one step further. Software and data that does
not, or
I submit that this was written without any consideration of the
discussion following Branden's efforts earlier this year.
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On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 08:33:21AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
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This proposal serves as a replacement for my earlier proposals:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2004/debian-vote-200401/msg01122.html
one which is not yet in the mailing list archives, but
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|I propose the following resolution:
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|We will replace our social contract with two documents, as specified
|by the recent constitutional amendment. The first replacement document
|will be the social contract below, and the second replacement
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 06:30:48PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote:
I submit that this was written without any consideration of the
discussion following Branden's efforts earlier this year.
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 01:39:30PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
That's a non-issue, as near as I can
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 09:35:51PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
I second this proposal.
Thanks.
But, um... since I got the name of LSB wrong, I'm going to have to
re-issue the proposal again.
I think, when I re-issue it tonight, I'll ask for a delay on seconding,
just in case there's anything
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 08:33:21AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
I'd like to call for seconds on this proposal, [especially from Sven
and Hamish, if this new one meets your requirements].
I certainly support this in principal and will await your final version
before signing a second. Also I must
I submit that this was written without any consideration of the
discussion following Branden's efforts earlier this year.
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The biggest reason for my most recent proposal is to make the social
contract say what it is that we've been doing in the context of non-free.
However, I've addressed a number of more minor problems [for example,
removing references to specific technologies, such as GNU/Linux,
FTP and CDs, and
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This proposal serves as a replacement for my earlier proposals:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2004/debian-vote-200401/msg01122.html
one which is not yet in the mailing list archives, but which is quoted at
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 08:33:21AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
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This proposal serves as a replacement for my earlier proposals:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2004/debian-vote-200401/msg01122.html
one which is not yet in the mailing list archives, but
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 07:43:55PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of software
that don't conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. We
support interoperability standards such as Linux System Base, and
will
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|I propose the following resolution:
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|We will replace our social contract with two documents, as specified
|by the recent constitutional amendment. The first replacement document
|will be the social contract below, and the second replacement
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 06:30:48PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote:
I submit that this was written without any consideration of the
discussion following Branden's efforts earlier this year.
That's a non-issue, as near as I can tell.
If there's some problem you're trying to solve, please specify
Comments on my most recent proposal.
The proposal consists of four kinds of changes:
[A] Making the social contract more generic than Linux. This means
changing the meta-title (the first line of the document) from Debian
GNU/Linux Social Contract to Debian's Social Contract, and
making a
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 08:33:21AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
I'd like to call for seconds on this proposal, [especially from Sven
and Hamish, if this new one meets your requirements].
I certainly support this in principal and will await your final version
before signing a second. Also I must
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