Re: Minimum standard of decency, was: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-31 Thread Roger Leigh
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Leigh I think that this behaviour, as well as that on other lists in the recent past, is making it increasingly necessary that we introduce some way of enforcing a minimum standard of decency on our lists. [...] You pillory[1] a man over his -private

Re: Minimum standard of decency, was: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-31 Thread MJ Ray
Adeodato Simó Are you deliberately lying here, to make your point prettier, or are you ciberately stating that Andrew lied himself in [3]? Neither. Thanks, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct --

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 01:31:30PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 06:13:14PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: no, the truth is, you're blinkered and inflexible and determined to twist [...] how long did it take to train you? can you do other tricks? Yes, I can also

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ma, 2006-01-30 kello 13:39 +1100, Craig Sanders kirjoitti: i'll behave as i please. if you don't like my words, then don't read them - kill file me if you feel it's necessary. Nobody has the right to be personally insulting on Debian lists. It would certainly be possible to express concern

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread MJ Ray
Craig Sanders wrote: as has been pointed out hundreds of times before, there are several other situations where neither the DFSG nor the debian project require modifiability - license texts and copyright notices, for example. As has been pointed out hundreds more times, those limitations are

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 05:13:26PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 12:09:55AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 02:29:38AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Mon,

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 09:24:15AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: GIVE. IT. A. FUCKING. REST! Craig, I'm willing to debate whatever you want to debate about the GFDL, but not with insults and shouting. Respectfully, -- .../ -/ ---/ .--./ / .--/ .-/ .../ -/ ../ -./ --./ / -.--/ ---/ ..-/ .-./ /

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 01:08:36PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 09:24:15AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: GIVE. IT. A. FUCKING. REST! Craig, I'm willing to debate whatever you want to debate about the GFDL, but not with insults and shouting. no, the truth is,

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 10:24:17AM +, MJ Ray wrote: Craig Sanders wrote: as has been pointed out hundreds of times before, there are several other situations where neither the DFSG nor the debian project require modifiability - license texts and copyright notices, for example. As has

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread MJ Ray
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 10:24:17AM +, MJ Ray wrote: As has been pointed out hundreds more times, those limitations are imposed by copyright law more than by licences. Even the licences which can be modified (such as the GPL), can't be modified if you

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 01:34:45AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 01:08:36PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 09:24:15AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: GIVE. IT. A. FUCKING. REST! Craig, I'm willing to debate whatever you want to debate about

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 03:09:53PM +, MJ Ray wrote: you CAN modify an invariant section - but you can only do so by adding a new section that subverts or refutes or simply adds to the invariant section. (Craig Sanders, January 2005) vs If it is modified, it does not do its job.

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Craig, could you please behave in a polite manner? Regardless of whether you're right or wrong about your claims about the GFDL, your manner is inappropriate on Debian mailing lists. Craig has already made it abundantly clear that he thinks the

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Craig, could you please behave in a polite manner? Regardless of whether you're right or wrong about your claims about the GFDL, your manner is inappropriate

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that this behaviour, as well as that on other lists in the recent past, is making it increasingly necessary that we introduce some way of enforcing a minimum standard of decency on our lists. We can't continue like this for long. This sort of

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 04:12:09PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 01:34:45AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 01:08:36PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: I'm willing to debate whatever you want to debate about the GFDL, but not with insults and

Minimum standard of decency, was: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread MJ Ray
Roger Leigh I think that this behaviour, as well as that on other lists in the recent past, is making it increasingly necessary that we introduce some way of enforcing a minimum standard of decency on our lists. [...] You pillory[1] a man over his -private beliefs about death[2] to the point

Re: Minimum standard of decency, was: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nevertheless, Craig Sanders's colourful rants break the lists code of conduct far more clearly than posting satire to -devel-announce. Where are the winged angels of vengence? But then, the d-d-a ban didn't look like it was about enforcing the list codes

Re: Minimum standard of decency, was: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Adeodato Simó
* MJ Ray [Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:25:48 +]: to the point where he recoils from the project[3], don't answer Are you deliberately lying here, to make your point prettier, or are you ciberately stating that Andrew lied himself in [3]? 3.

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: with one of you, as with all, there's no point in engaging in debate or any kind of civilised discourse. So ... Why don't you just stop the flaming, if there's no point anyway? I have the feeling that this would somehow improve the climate of the

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:10:11AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 04:12:09PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 01:34:45AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 01:08:36PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: I'm willing to debate whatever

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 06:13:14PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: no, the truth is, you're blinkered and inflexible and determined to twist [...] oh look, it's yet another wind up doll - how cute. how long did it take to train you? can you do other tricks? there does seem to be a lot of

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-29 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 01:45:40AM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: Hereby I am proposing an amendment to the GR about GFDL opened by Anthony Towns [Sun, 01 Jan 2006 15:02:04 +1000] I wish to thank everybody who will support this amendment, especially I wish to thank those who second it. I

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-29 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 02:29:38AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 01:45:40AM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: (2) The Invariant Sections - Main Objection Against GFDL [...] This argument has been brought up a number of times already, but it does not hold. no, it holds

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 12:09:55AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 02:29:38AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 01:45:40AM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: (2) The Invariant Sections - Main Objection Against GFDL [...] This argument has been brought

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-29 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 05:13:26PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 12:09:55AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 02:29:38AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 01:45:40AM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: (2) The Invariant Sections -

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-29 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ma, 2006-01-30 kello 09:24 +1100, Craig Sanders kirjoitti: only indirectly. the real point, which you missed, was to be an accurate description of reality - something that, as an extremist nutcase, you are challenged by. [ further insults deleted ] Craig, could you please behave in a polite

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-29 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 02:37:05AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: ma, 2006-01-30 kello 09:24 +1100, Craig Sanders kirjoitti: only indirectly. the real point, which you missed, was to be an accurate description of reality - something that, as an extremist nutcase, you are challenged by. [

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-28 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Anton Zinoviev wrote: Hereby I am proposing an amendment to the GR about GFDL opened by Anthony Towns [Sun, 01 Jan 2006 15:02:04 +1000] I wish to thank everybody who will support this amendment, especially I wish to thank those who second it. I second the amendment quoted below. It's my

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-27 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 16:55 -0600, Graham Wilson wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 10:10:22AM +0200, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: Those in favour of two separate GR's: * Read my GR proposal [0] and second it (your choice of course). * Read Nathanael's amendment proposal [1] to my

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-25 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 09:45 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I think I was partially responding to aj's question about why we need it to be two separate GR's. At this point, we can have either 2 GR's -- one for deciding on the status of GFDL licensed works, with or without invariant

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-25 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 16:05 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:09:53PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: The following is my reasoning (and similar for control). Progress or accomplishment means that the process that is being hindered or prevented has already started. Hence

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-25 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El martes, 24 de enero de 2006 a las 14:32:39 +0200, Anton Zinoviev escribía: You may not use technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or further copying of the copies you make or distribute The permissions are clearly a technical measure. They clearly obstruct and

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-25 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 10:10:22AM +0200, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: Those in favour of two separate GR's: * Read my GR proposal [0] and second it (your choice of course). * Read Nathanael's amendment proposal [1] to my proposal. A DD needs to send it as a reply to my

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 17:39 -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: I think everyone is forgetting this one (IMHO pretty reasonable) option: - Works licensed under the terms of the GNU FDL but with no invariant-foo comply (or may comply) with the DFSG, but we still refuse to distribute them,

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Frank Küster
Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Russ Allbery] If we're going to put all the options on the ballot, let's go ahead and put them *all* on the ballot so that no significant group of DDs can later claim that their opinion wasn't represented by the choices. I think everyone is

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread David N. Welton
Steve Langasek wrote: Wow, you think it's prudent to rely on an external organization with whom you do not have a contract for your compliance with a license? Most businesses would *not*, and I doubt most judges would either. Aren't those same organizations relying on us to, say, not attempt

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 11:49:04PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: The overall subject can be software freedom but not necesarily in all cases and certainly not in the case with the man-page. One can not use simple quantity calculations in order to determine what the overall subject of a

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 12:42:27AM +1300, Anthony Towns wrote: It is naive to think that in order to fulfil this requirement of DFSG Calling your fellow developers naive isn't terribly nice, you sell out... ;) I do not call my fellow developers naive because they do not think this. In

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 07:59:44PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: That does not follow at all. If the GNOME Foundation chooses to license documents as GFDL, it does not mean they believe it is a free software license. It can just as easily signify that they do not believe documentation

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:05:12AM +0100, David N. Welton wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: Wow, you think it's prudent to rely on an external organization with whom you do not have a contract for your compliance with a license? Most businesses would *not*, and I doubt most judges would

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Frank Küster] - Works licensed under the terms of the GNU FDL but with no invariant-foo comply (or may comply) with the DFSG, but we still refuse to distribute them, because of the significant practical problems that this would cause both for us and for our users. If you propose

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 05:39:07PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: The notable practical problems I'm alluding to would include: - All Debian mirrors must retain source packages one year after the corresponding binary packages are deleted The license does not require this because on all

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 00:53 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Yes, and under this license we would still have to keep those sources around for a year *after* we stop distributing woody in binary form. And provide for backups network reliability, since losing our copy would leave us in violation

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Nathanael Nerode
On Sunday 22 January 2006 16:45, Anton Zinoviev wrote: In fact, the license says only this: You may not use technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or further copying of the copies you make or distribute Did any of you actually *read* this? Read it. What it actually

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The license is an agreement that regulates one action: the distribution, right? No, unfortunately. Under copyright law, creating private copies, or private modified copies, is one of the exclusive privileges of the copyright holder. You need permission from the

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:39:41AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: On Sunday 22 January 2006 16:45, Anton Zinoviev wrote: In fact, the license says only this: You may not use technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or further copying of the copies you make or

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 06:39 -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Did any of you actually *read* this? Read it. What it actually *says*, means that storing a copy on a multiuser machine with UNIX permissions set so that it can't be read by everyone is *prohibited*. The permissions are clearly

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Frank Küster
Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:39:41AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: On Sunday 22 January 2006 16:45, Anton Zinoviev wrote: In fact, the license says only this: You may not use technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 02:02:25PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: If you do chmod -r then I am unable to read the file and there exists no reading to control. Come on. If the directory is world (or just group) readable, there *is* in fact something to read. Simply defining that every copy

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Frank Küster
Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 02:02:25PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: If you do chmod -r then I am unable to read the file and there exists no reading to control. Come on. If the directory is world (or just group) readable, there *is* in fact something

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 02:48:20PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 02:02:25PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: If you do chmod -r then I am unable to read the file and there exists no reading to control. Come on. If the

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't say the copy doesn't matter. I say that there is no process of reading the copy. Do I control your reading of the image on my So you agree that using permission bits is obstructing the reading, as defined in the GFDL? From WordNet (r) 2.0

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:25:54 +0100, Adeodato Simó [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: * Russ Allbery [Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:17:14 -0800]: If we're going to put all the options on the ballot, let's go ahead and put them *all* on the ballot so that no significant group of DDs can later claim that their

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 04:27:25PM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: So you agree that using permission bits is obstructing the reading, as defined in the GFDL? From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: obstruct v 1: hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of; His brother

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 12:17:24PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Well, if you ask the people that use this man-page they will tell. Uh. You'll have to make a choice here: either the text is the entirety of _all_ manpages (in which case you can split off the invariant sections and the FDL

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Peter Samuelson [Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:39:07 -0600]: - All Debian mirrors must retain source packages one year after the corresponding binary packages are deleted - Debian CD vendors must either ship source CDs to all customers regardless of whether a customer wants them, or maintain

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 12:17:24PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: With respect to that freedom GPL is also non-free. It is not. See below. Anyone arguing for invariant sections by pointing to license texts has missed all of the prior discussions on this topic, going back years. Given the

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:09:53PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 04:27:25PM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: So you agree that using permission bits is obstructing the reading, as defined in the GFDL? From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: obstruct v 1: hinder or

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:10:19PM +0100, Adeodato Sim?? wrote: * Peter Samuelson [Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:39:07 -0600]: - Neither Debian, nor the mirror network, nor the users, can use rsync-over-ssh to update their CD images or individual packages. Can't the Debian Project (by means of its

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 11:22:49AM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: It is a fact confirmed by Richard Stallman, author of GFDL, Cite, please. I sent Richard Stallman a draft of my proposal where this paragraph contained the words it is our belief that. The responce by Stallman was You can

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 12:50:57AM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 07:59:44PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: People should think long and hard about this requirement, independent of whether it is DFSG-compliant. Think about the implications for the ftp.debian.org mirror

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Anton Zinoviev] They clearly obstruct and control the reading or further copying of that copy. No, they can not. They can not control something that doesn't exist. I have the root password. If I run 'su', I can read your document. If I don't, I can't. You are now controlling how I

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-23 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 10:28:18AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: That, I can agree with. So let's do that: let's see at what restrictions are imposed, and whether they would allow me to modify the document so that it would allow me to do anything I, as a Debian maintainer, would want to do

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-23 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The point is there is no practical difference whether the GNU Manifesto is placed in the preamble of the license or it is placed in an invariant section. Actually, there is. I think that the consensus of debian-legal has been that we must accept the

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-23 Thread Xavier Roche
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 01:45:40AM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: Hereby I am proposing an amendment to the GR about GFDL opened by Anthony Towns [Sun, 01 Jan 2006 15:02:04 +1000] GNU Free Documentation License protects the freedom, it is compatible with Debian Free Software Guidelines I second

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-23 Thread Isaac Clerencia
On Monday 23 January 2006 14:37, Xavier Roche wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 01:45:40AM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: Hereby I am proposing an amendment to the GR about GFDL opened by Anthony Towns [Sun, 01 Jan 2006 15:02:04 +1000] GNU Free Documentation License protects the freedom, it is

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 12:59:54PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 10:28:18AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: That, I can agree with. So let's do that: let's see at what restrictions are imposed, and whether they would allow me to modify the document so that it would

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-23 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Russ Allbery [Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:17:14 -0800]: If we're going to put all the options on the ballot, let's go ahead and put them *all* on the ballot so that no significant group of DDs can later claim that their opinion wasn't represented by the choices. Latelly, I'm thinking that this

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Russ Allbery wrote: In that case, could someone please propose an amendment which captures the *other* regularly voiced opinion, namely that GFDL without invarient sections is DFSG-free but with invarient sections is not, and phrase that in an appropriate form as an

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Adeodato Simó [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Russ Allbery [Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:17:14 -0800]: If we're going to put all the options on the ballot, let's go ahead and put them *all* on the ballot so that no significant group of DDs can later claim that their opinion wasn't represented by the

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-23 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Seg, 2006-01-23 às 10:28 +0100, Wouter Verhelst escreveu: On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 10:41:25AM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: If you do not have any access to my encrypted or chmod -r copy, then I am not controllyng your reading or further copying Really. If you maintain a copy of a GFDL'ed

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 03:23:02PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: I mean, I know the license says the copies you make or distribute, but, by definition, wouldn't it apply only to the act of distribution? No. By default, copyright does not grant you a license to copy a work; if the license allows

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-23 Thread Romain Francoise
FWIW, I second the amendment quoted below. Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GNU Free Documentation License protects the freedom, it is compatible with Debian Free Software Guidelines ~~ (0) Summary This is the position of Debian

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-23 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Russ Allbery] If we're going to put all the options on the ballot, let's go ahead and put them *all* on the ballot so that no significant group of DDs can later claim that their opinion wasn't represented by the choices. I think everyone is forgetting this one (IMHO pretty reasonable)

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-23 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 01:45:40AM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: Hereby I am proposing an amendment to the GR about GFDL opened by Anthony Towns [Sun, 01 Jan 2006 15:02:04 +1000] (The proposal actually became formal on the 12th, and that's the one you're amending, fwiw) GNU Free Documentation

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-23 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Anton Zinoviev] If Debian decided that GFDL is not free, this would mean that Debian attempted to impose on the free software community alternative meaning of free software, effectively violating its Social Contract with the free software community. That does not follow at all. If the

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-23 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 09:35:32AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Adeodato Sim? [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Russ Allbery [Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:17:14 -0800]: If we're going to put all the options on the ballot, let's go ahead and put them *all* on the ballot so that no significant group of DDs

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-23 Thread Graham Wilson
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 07:59:44PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: People should think long and hard about this requirement, independent of whether it is DFSG-compliant. Think about the implications for the ftp.debian.org mirror network, and for CD and DVD vendors. It's a pretty significant

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-23 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 13:58 +1300, Anthony Towns wrote: I don't think that makes any sense; ignoring the fact I don't think that GFDL is non-free is a delegate's decision, I don't think it makes any sense to take an action on this without offering an explanation of why at the same time.

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 23 janvier 2006 à 01:45 +0200, Anton Zinoviev a écrit : GNU Free Documentation License protects the freedom, it is compatible with Debian Free Software Guidelines And I thought Debian politics stayed away from populism... -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' :

Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-22 Thread Anton Zinoviev
Hereby I am proposing an amendment to the GR about GFDL opened by Anthony Towns [Sun, 01 Jan 2006 15:02:04 +1000] I wish to thank everybody who will support this amendment, especially I wish to thank those who second it. I wish to thank also the members of the Debian mailing list at

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-22 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
I second this amendment, quoted in full below: On Sunday 22 January 2006 16:45, Anton Zinoviev wrote: Hereby I am proposing an amendment to the GR about GFDL opened by Anthony Towns [Sun, 01 Jan 2006 15:02:04 +1000] I wish to thank everybody who will support this amendment, especially I wish

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
I will _not_ second this proposal. Moreover, I would like to ask any Debian Developer who's thinking of doing a second to consider what it would imply. Legalese is not programming. See below. On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 01:45:40AM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: (2) The Invariant Sections - Main

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-22 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Wouter Verhelst] I will _not_ second this proposal. Moreover, I would like to ask any Debian Developer who's thinking of doing a second to consider what it would imply. Seconding doesn't mean voting for. Often someone will second an amendment just to ensure that it gets on the ballot. That

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 12:13:03AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Wouter Verhelst] I will _not_ second this proposal. Moreover, I would like to ask any Debian Developer who's thinking of doing a second to consider what it would imply. Seconding doesn't mean voting for. I know that.