Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-17 Thread Andreas Metzler
Debian Project secretary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 11:40:20 +0100, Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [[PGP Signed Part:Failed] Signature made Fri Jan 13 02:21:11 2006 CST using DSA key ID 330C4A75 Good signature from Martin

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-15 Thread Andreas Metzler
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [[PGP Signed Part:Failed] Signature made Fri Jan 13 02:21:11 2006 CST using DSA key ID 330C4A75 Good signature from Martin F. Krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] aka Martin F. Krafft (AERAsec GmbH) [EMAIL PROTECTED] aka Martin F.

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-15 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:55:43AM +0100, Adeodato Sim?? wrote: As I expect that at least one of the seconds/proposer will object to this amendment (heh), I'm actively looking for seconds myself now. I personally object to this because I find actually what you call bugs to be much more

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-15 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 11:30:55PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: This requirement is extremly costly for anyone attempting to distribute Sarge either as a mirror or as an ISO image. Can you point to testimony of people actually hindered by this? Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-15 Thread Debian Project secretary
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 11:40:20 +0100, Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [[PGP Signed Part:Failed] Signature made Fri Jan 13 02:21:11 2006 CST using DSA key ID 330C4A75 Good signature from Martin F. Krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] aka Martin F. Krafft

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-13 Thread martin f krafft
Thanks to Luk for setting things straight. I hereby second Dato's proposal, which is included in full below. also sprach Adeodato Simó [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.01.10.0455 +0100]: It's been six months since the social contract changes that forbid non-free documentation went into effect [0], and

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-13 Thread Esteban Manchado Velázquez
I second Adeodato Simó's amendment: On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:55:43AM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: I propose an amendment to this GR, consisting in replacing the existing text with the one below. I initially tried to follow Anthony's original text as close as possible, and just add a

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-13 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
In linux.debian.vote Adeodato wrote: I propose an amendment to this GR, consisting in replacing the existing text with the one below. I initially tried to follow Anthony's original text as close as possible, and just add a paragraph and reword a couple sentences, but I didn't quite

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-13 Thread MJ Ray
Adeodato =?utf-8?B?U2ltw7M=?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Right, FSF stuff goes away. OTOH, I feel utterly ashamed each time I imagine the possibility of the following conversation taking place: =C2=ABHey, fellow free software developer, thanks for writing such a cool program and releasing it under the

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
Merle Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would ftpmasters and mirror operators be able to either include a machine-readable Transparent copy along with each Opaque copy, or [...] ensure that this Transparent copy will remain thus accessible at the stated location until at least one year after the

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Esteban Manchado Velázquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-01-13 09:26]: I second Adeodato Simó's amendment: I hereby second this proposal as well. On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:55:43AM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: I propose an amendment to this GR, consisting in replacing the existing text with

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Merle Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would ftpmasters and mirror operators be able to either include a machine-readable Transparent copy along with each Opaque copy, or [...] ensure that this Transparent copy will remain thus accessible at the stated

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, [[PGP Signed Part:Failed] Signature made Fri Jan 13 02:21:11 2006 CST using DSA key ID 330C4A75 Good signature from Martin F. Krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] aka Martin F. Krafft (AERAsec GmbH) [EMAIL PROTECTED] aka Martin F. Krafft (Debian) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-12 Thread Adeodato Simó
* MJ Ray [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:24:52 +]: Also, this fails to address the security ban and the forced Transparent downloads/availability. 'Cause this amendment is not about trying to engage in legal-type discussion about whether those two can be work-arounded or not. It's: we regard

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-12 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Anthony Towns [Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:45:19 +1000]: What documents would this effort actually let us keep, anyway? All the FSF stuff for glibc, gcc, make and so on includes invariant sections anyway, no? Right, FSF stuff goes away. OTOH, I feel utterly ashamed each time I imagine the

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-12 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Adeodato Simó [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060112 15:09]: (Or in other words: perhaps it's only me, okay, but I can't help, at all, feel that ripping out of main documentation that their authors intended to be free, and made their best-effort to achieve that, like a form of betrayal. It is a

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-12 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernhard R. Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Adeodato Simó [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060112 15:09]: (Or in other words: perhaps it's only me, okay, but I can't help, at all, feel that ripping out of main documentation that their authors intended

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 03:06:49PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Anthony Towns [Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:45:19 +1000]: What documents would this effort actually let us keep, anyway? All the FSF stuff for glibc, gcc, make and so on includes invariant sections anyway, no? Right, FSF stuff

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-12 Thread Roland Mas
Adeodato Simó, 2006-01-12 15:10:40 +0100 : [...] (Or in other words: perhaps it's only me, okay, but I can't help, at all, feel that ripping out of main documentation that their authors intended to be free, and made their best-effort to achieve that, like a form of betrayal.

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-12 Thread Christopher Martin
I second the proposal quoted below. I'm following debian-vote through the archives, so if you wish to reply or comment to me specifically, CC me. Christopher Martin On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:55:43AM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: Debian and the GNU Free Documentation License

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 08:53:04PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote: Having invariant sections (or any other non-free stuff) in main could be seen as a betrayal of the people who chose the license. This is not about invariant sections. This is about the other bugs in the GFDL the FSF has not fixed

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-12 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Jeu 12 Janvier 2006 22:28, Christopher Martin a écrit : I second the proposal quoted below. and I do the same. On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:55:43AM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: Debian and the GNU Free Documentation License = This is the

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Adeodato Simó [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.01.10.0455 +0100]: Formally, the Debian Project will include in the main section of its distribution works licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License that include no Invariant Sections, no Cover Texts, no

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-12 Thread Luk Claes
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Adeodato Simó [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.01.10.0455 +0100]: Formally, the Debian Project will include in the main section of its distribution works licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License that include no Invariant Sections, no Cover

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-12 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Ven 13 Janvier 2006 00:09, martin f krafft a écrit : also sprach Adeodato Simó [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.01.10.0455 +0100]: Formally, the Debian Project will include in the main section of its distribution works licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License that include no

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:55:43AM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: I propose an amendment to this GR, consisting in replacing the existing text with the one below. I initially tried to follow Seconded. Hamish ---8--- Debian

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-12 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 12:33:36AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: And please, I don't want to see answers saying that the documentation can be put in non-free, because, due the the debian policy, `kde` meta-package (same is true for gnome) beeing in main, cannot depend upon the non free kde

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-12 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
Seconded. On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:55:43AM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: Debian and the GNU Free Documentation License = This is the position of Debian Project about the GNU Free Documentation License as published by the Free Software

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-11 Thread MJ Ray
Adeodato Sim=C3=B3 Formally, the Debian Project will include in the main section of its distribution works licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License that include no Invariant Sections, no Cover Texts, no Acknowledgements, and no Dedications, unless permission to remove

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-10 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Anthony Towns [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:24:47 +1000]: On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:55:43AM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: II. Transparent And Opaque Copies Section 3 (Copying in Quantity) of the GFDL states that it is not enough to just put a transparent copy of a document alongside with the

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-10 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:42:00AM +0100, Adeodato Sim?? wrote: * Anthony Towns [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:24:47 +1000]: II. Transparent And Opaque Copies The way we distribute source and binaries doesn't meet this requirement; Well, this assuming that distributing the source in the same

Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-09 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Anthony Towns [Sun, 01 Jan 2006 15:02:04 +1000]: It's been six months since the social contract changes that forbid non-free documentation went into effect [0], and we're still distributing GFDLed stuff in unstable [1]. I think we should get serious about fixing that, and as part of that

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:55:43AM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: I propose an amendment to this GR, consisting in replacing the existing text with the one below. (The purpose being to indicate the GFDL only needs to be in non-free due to invariant sections. This would be nice if it were