Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 19:34:17 +, Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 11:29:57AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: So far, the proposals have gotten as far as Deals with a problem. [In the sense that we have a conflict of opinion between people who think non-free is a

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:28:32AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 09:04:35PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: Ok. How about, instead, we talk about the reasons for this change: what problems it solves, what it makes better, why it's a good idea? I'm not really interested

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 07:45:25PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-01-01 15:10:32 + Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But please don't demand other people avoid non-free software if you're not willing to solve their problems. Are the people using the Debian infrastructure to support

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 10:45:57PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: http://www.apt-get.org/ What about BTS? Gnome used to use debbugs, though maybe they have switched to Bugzilla now. Gnome is in main. I guess the point was that GNOME managed to use debbugs for them, so why shouldn't

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-04 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:34:44PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: I guess the point was that GNOME managed to use debbugs for them, so why shouldn't the prospective non-free-.debs-project do that, too? Ah... in the context of that point, it's probably worth pointing out that gnome is an effort

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-04 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Jan 3, 2004, at 22:45, Raul Miller wrote: On Jan 3, 2004, at 19:59, Raul Miller wrote: I don't see anything there which which would justify forcing people to not support non-free. On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 10:05:31PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Well, nothing is _forcing_ someone else not

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-04 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Jan 3, 2004, at 23:03, Andrew Suffield wrote: As a matter of form, please keep rationale out of the body of resolutions - otherwise you raise a quandry for people who agree with the resolution but disagree with the rationale. Ah. Understood. Will do so in the future. I encourage anyone who

Re: GR: Removal of non-free

2004-01-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 11:48:02PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I see non-free as an area where we put in software for which there is not yet a free replacement, so that our usaers can use Debian, not as a pedantically pure toy, but as a useful tool in a world that is not yet all

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 08:46:08AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:34:44PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: I guess the point was that GNOME managed to use debbugs for them, so why shouldn't the prospective non-free-.debs-project do that, too? Ah... in the context of that

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-04 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 08:49:21AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Jan 3, 2004, at 22:45, Raul Miller wrote: That's the point of this vote, isn't it? To get people to stop putting any further effort into non-free? No. It's to get the Debian Project to stop supporting non-free software

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-04 Thread Raul Miller
That's the point of this vote, isn't it? To get people to stop putting any further effort into non-free? On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 08:49:21AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: No. It's to get the Debian Project to stop supporting non-free software on its servers. Anyone, Developer or not,

Re: Candidate social contract amendments (part 1: editorial)

2004-01-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:03:50AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 19:10:49 +, Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 02:56:27PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: guidelines that we use to determine if a work is free in the document called

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-04 Thread Raul Miller
A few moments ago, I wrote: Debian is not the FSF. We support our users who develop and run non-free software. Your proposal did change the social contract in that fashion. How embarassing, I left out the word not. I had meant to say: Your proposal did not change the social contract in

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:09:11AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Me; I would like to have a better handle on the reults of whatever actions are the logical conclusion of this opinion poll -- and even build upon the possible directions the project could go while we are asking for

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:10:59PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: All I have seen is vague handwaving along the lines of There may be people who would prefer to do something else [but I can't think of anything I'd rather do than keep non-free]. That's probably because you've ignored all of the

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 10:24:40AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:10:59PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: All I have seen is vague handwaving along the lines of There may be people who would prefer to do something else [but I can't think of anything I'd rather do than

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-04 08:46]: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:34:44PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: I guess the point was that GNOME managed to use debbugs for them, so why shouldn't the prospective non-free-.debs-project do that, too? Ah... in the context of that point,

Re: GR: Removal of non-free

2004-01-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:42:47PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: As a matter of fact, both acroread and netscape-* had free replacements (although not identical) for years. One of them perhaps a bit less functional than the non-free one (xpdf), the other ones quite more so (mozilla,

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 10:24:40AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:10:59PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: All I have seen is vague handwaving along the lines of There may be people who would prefer to do something else [but I can't think of anything I'd rather do than

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 08:59:43AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Jan 3, 2004, at 23:03, Andrew Suffield wrote: As a matter of form, please keep rationale out of the body of resolutions - otherwise you raise a quandry for people who agree with the resolution but disagree with the

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-04 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:51:07PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Mutt uses debbugs, and isn't a project of the magnitude of GNOME. Which still doesn't make it comparable to non-free. On the one hand, it's much more cohesive: instead of dozens of unrelated packages you have mut. On the other

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 10:24:40AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:10:59PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: All I have seen is vague handwaving along the lines of There may be people who would prefer to do something else [but I can't think of anything I'd rather do

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-04 Thread Clint Adams
Possibly, people would like to be able to plan ahead and have some time to replace Debian's infrastructure with, say, a non-free.org. It's nonfree.org, without the hyphen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GR: Removal of non-free

2004-01-04 Thread Clint Adams
Almost all the support for non-free in Debian is a free result of our support for free software. The n-m process, the BTS, the PTS, the mailing lists, policy, our security infrastructure, our buildds, our mirror network, release management, buildds all have to exist whether we support

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Raul Miller
Because you have no problem you're trying to solve, you do not [can't] recognize other proposals to solve the same problem. On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:25:11PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: You haven't made any proposals. You asked for other people to make some. Nobody did. I have not made

Re: GR: Removal of non-free

2004-01-04 Thread Martin Schulze
Clint Adams wrote: Almost all the support for non-free in Debian is a free result of our support for free software. The n-m process, the BTS, the PTS, the mailing lists, policy, our security infrastructure, our buildds, our mirror network, release management, buildds all have to exist

Revoking non-free less violently

2004-01-04 Thread Brian McGroarty
Instead of severing non-free all at once, why not try and phase it out more progressively? I would propose the next release include a package that periodically checks what non-free packages are installed. The results would be sent to a Debian server for statistics gathering. The user would be

Re: Revoking non-free less violently

2004-01-04 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:57:20AM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: I would propose the next release include a package that periodically checks what non-free packages are installed. The results would be sent to a Debian server for statistics gathering. The user would be prompted to enable the

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:42:02AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: Because you have no problem you're trying to solve, you do not [can't] recognize other proposals to solve the same problem. On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:25:11PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: You haven't made any proposals. You

Re: Revoking non-free less violently

2004-01-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:57:20AM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: Instead of severing non-free all at once, why not try and phase it out more progressively? Isn't months slow enough already? I would propose the next release include a package that periodically checks what non-free packages are

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:13:11AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:51:07PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Mutt uses debbugs, and isn't a project of the magnitude of GNOME. Which still doesn't make it comparable to non-free. You won't find an example which fits perfectly

Re: Revoking non-free less violently

2004-01-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:57:20AM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: Instead of severing non-free all at once, why not try and phase it out more progressively? Nobody did this until now. Why should somebody do it now? Those who'd like to see non-free go probably don't want to 'get their hands

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-04 Thread Dale E Martin
The question isn't _what_ it's about, but what the point of it is -- what the goal is, what the achievement will be, what the aim is, _why_ this is worth doing. [snip] Note that many of the packages in non-free include their source code. Indeed, many of the packages in non-free are

Re: Revoking non-free less violently

2004-01-04 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew Suffield wrote: One thing that we do learn from popularity-contest is that popularity-contest doesn't work. The sample size is too small. That's why we've made popularity-contest be installed by default for sarge. Of course the user still has to choose whether or not to turn it on. --

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:10:59PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: and I've been following them carefully, and none of them have said anything appreciably more meaningful than I want to keep non-free or I want to drop non-free. I think there's room for something along the lines of I want to

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Jan 4, 2004, at 16:00, Mark Brown wrote: I think there's room for something along the lines of I want to spin non-free off as a separate project. Much of the concern over dropping non-free seems to be about having things just suddenly vanish. Those people may want to take a look at my

Re: GR: Removal of non-free

2004-01-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:42:47PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 11:48:02PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I see non-free as an area where we put in software for which there is not yet a free replacement, so that our usaers can use Debian, not as a pedantically

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 15:10:59 +, Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:09:11AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Me; I would like to have a better handle on the reults of whatever actions are the logical conclusion of this opinion poll -- and even build upon the

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 16:52:12 +, Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:42:02AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: Because you have no problem you're trying to solve, you do not [can't] recognize other proposals to solve the same problem. On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at

Re: GR: Removal of non-free

2004-01-04 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Jan 4, 2004, at 16:19, Sven Luther wrote: and it is still not possible to look at some banking web pages with a mozilla based browser. ... and it is with Netscape Communicator (if that is still in non-free)? and what about KHTML browsers, like Konqueror? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: GR: Removal of non-free

2004-01-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:53:50 -0500, Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:02:42PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: While this is better than your previous proposal, I would still vote it below the default option if it were on a ballot. How is this information useful

Re: GR: Removal of non-free

2004-01-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 16:53:09 +, Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:27:10AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: Could you tell me about the plan for dealing with contrib and non-free? The plan is for somebody else (ie, not Debian) to deal with them, if they

Re: GR: Removal of non-free

2004-01-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 00:09:44 -0500, Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:40:03PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 02:29:41PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: That is somewhat uncomfortable; and besides, non-free is there for convenience until we

Re: GR: Removal of non-free

2004-01-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 20:09:09 +, MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 2004-01-02 10:33:23 + Emmanuel Charpentier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because I somehow doubt that the current technical and social infrastructures behind Debian non-free can be currently duplicated somewhere else.

Re: Candidate social contract amendments (part 1: editorial)

2004-01-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 19:10:49 +, Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 02:56:27PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: guidelines that we use to determine if a work is free in the document called the Debian Free Software Guidelines. We will support people who create

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 19:34:17 +, Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 11:29:57AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: So far, the proposals have gotten as far as Deals with a problem. [In the sense that we have a conflict of opinion between people who think non-free is a

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 07:45:25PM +, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-01-01 15:10:32 + Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But please don't demand other people avoid non-free software if you're not willing to solve their problems. Are the people using the Debian infrastructure to support

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:28:32AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 09:04:35PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: Ok. How about, instead, we talk about the reasons for this change: what problems it solves, what it makes better, why it's a good idea? I'm not really interested

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 10:45:57PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: http://www.apt-get.org/ What about BTS? Gnome used to use debbugs, though maybe they have switched to Bugzilla now. Gnome is in main. I guess the point was that GNOME managed to use debbugs for them, so why shouldn't

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-04 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:34:44PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: I guess the point was that GNOME managed to use debbugs for them, so why shouldn't the prospective non-free-.debs-project do that, too? Ah... in the context of that point, it's probably worth pointing out that gnome is an effort

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-04 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Jan 3, 2004, at 22:45, Raul Miller wrote: On Jan 3, 2004, at 19:59, Raul Miller wrote: I don't see anything there which which would justify forcing people to not support non-free. On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 10:05:31PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Well, nothing is _forcing_ someone

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 08:46:08AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:34:44PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: I guess the point was that GNOME managed to use debbugs for them, so why shouldn't the prospective non-free-.debs-project do that, too? Ah... in the context of that

Re: Candidate social contract amendments (part 1: editorial)

2004-01-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:03:50AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 19:10:49 +, Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 02:56:27PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: guidelines that we use to determine if a work is free in the document called

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-04 Thread Raul Miller
That's the point of this vote, isn't it? To get people to stop putting any further effort into non-free? On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 08:49:21AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: No. It's to get the Debian Project to stop supporting non-free software on its servers. Anyone, Developer or not,

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-04 Thread Raul Miller
A few moments ago, I wrote: Debian is not the FSF. We support our users who develop and run non-free software. Your proposal did change the social contract in that fashion. How embarassing, I left out the word not. I had meant to say: Your proposal did not change the social contract in

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:10:59PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: All I have seen is vague handwaving along the lines of There may be people who would prefer to do something else [but I can't think of anything I'd rather do than keep non-free]. That's probably because you've ignored all of the

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 10:24:40AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:10:59PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: All I have seen is vague handwaving along the lines of There may be people who would prefer to do something else [but I can't think of anything I'd rather do than

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-04 08:46]: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:34:44PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: I guess the point was that GNOME managed to use debbugs for them, so why shouldn't the prospective non-free-.debs-project do that, too? Ah... in the context of that point,

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 10:24:40AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:10:59PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: All I have seen is vague handwaving along the lines of There may be people who would prefer to do something else [but I can't think of anything I'd rather do

Re: GR: Removal of non-free

2004-01-04 Thread Clint Adams
Almost all the support for non-free in Debian is a free result of our support for free software. The n-m process, the BTS, the PTS, the mailing lists, policy, our security infrastructure, our buildds, our mirror network, release management, buildds all have to exist whether we support

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 10:24:40AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:10:59PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: All I have seen is vague handwaving along the lines of There may be people who would prefer to do something else [but I can't think of anything I'd rather do than

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 10:24:40AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:10:59PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: All I have seen is vague handwaving along the lines of There may be people who would prefer to do something else [but I can't think of anything I'd rather do

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-04 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:51:07PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Mutt uses debbugs, and isn't a project of the magnitude of GNOME. Which still doesn't make it comparable to non-free. On the one hand, it's much more cohesive: instead of dozens of unrelated packages you have mut. On the other

Re: GR: Removal of non-free

2004-01-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:42:47PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: As a matter of fact, both acroread and netscape-* had free replacements (although not identical) for years. One of them perhaps a bit less functional than the non-free one (xpdf), the other ones quite more so (mozilla,

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-04 Thread Clint Adams
Possibly, people would like to be able to plan ahead and have some time to replace Debian's infrastructure with, say, a non-free.org. It's nonfree.org, without the hyphen.

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Raul Miller
Because you have no problem you're trying to solve, you do not [can't] recognize other proposals to solve the same problem. On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:25:11PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: You haven't made any proposals. You asked for other people to make some. Nobody did. I have not made

Re: GR: Removal of non-free

2004-01-04 Thread Martin Schulze
Clint Adams wrote: Almost all the support for non-free in Debian is a free result of our support for free software. The n-m process, the BTS, the PTS, the mailing lists, policy, our security infrastructure, our buildds, our mirror network, release management, buildds all have to exist

Re: Revoking non-free less violently

2004-01-04 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:57:20AM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: I would propose the next release include a package that periodically checks what non-free packages are installed. The results would be sent to a Debian server for statistics gathering. The user would be prompted to enable the

Revoking non-free less violently

2004-01-04 Thread Brian McGroarty
Instead of severing non-free all at once, why not try and phase it out more progressively? I would propose the next release include a package that periodically checks what non-free packages are installed. The results would be sent to a Debian server for statistics gathering. The user would be

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:42:02AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: Because you have no problem you're trying to solve, you do not [can't] recognize other proposals to solve the same problem. On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:25:11PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: You haven't made any proposals. You

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:52:12PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: Exactly what I said. Anything that doesn't need to be voted on is a proposal to maintain the status quo, no matter how many words you use to say it. Um... not really. But, ok, since you seem to want to talk purely about the

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:13:11AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:51:07PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Mutt uses debbugs, and isn't a project of the magnitude of GNOME. Which still doesn't make it comparable to non-free. You won't find an example which fits perfectly

Re: Revoking non-free less violently

2004-01-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:57:20AM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: Instead of severing non-free all at once, why not try and phase it out more progressively? Isn't months slow enough already? I would propose the next release include a package that periodically checks what non-free packages are

Re: Revoking non-free less violently

2004-01-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:57:20AM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: Instead of severing non-free all at once, why not try and phase it out more progressively? Nobody did this until now. Why should somebody do it now? Those who'd like to see non-free go probably don't want to 'get their hands

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
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Re: Revoking non-free less violently

2004-01-04 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew Suffield wrote: One thing that we do learn from popularity-contest is that popularity-contest doesn't work. The sample size is too small. That's why we've made popularity-contest be installed by default for sarge. Of course the user still has to choose whether or not to turn it on. --

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Jan 4, 2004, at 16:00, Mark Brown wrote: I think there's room for something along the lines of I want to spin non-free off as a separate project. Much of the concern over dropping non-free seems to be about having things just suddenly vanish. Those people may want to take a look at my

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:00:09PM +, Mark Brown wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:10:59PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: and I've been following them carefully, and none of them have said anything appreciably more meaningful than I want to keep non-free or I want to drop non-free.

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:10:59PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: and I've been following them carefully, and none of them have said anything appreciably more meaningful than I want to keep non-free or I want to drop non-free. I think there's room for something along the lines of I want to

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:19:23PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:00:09PM +, Mark Brown wrote: I think there's room for something along the lines of I want to spin non-free off as a separate project. Much of the concern over dropping non-free seems to be

Re: GR: Removal of non-free

2004-01-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:42:47PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 11:48:02PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I see non-free as an area where we put in software for which there is not yet a free replacement, so that our usaers can use Debian, not as a pedantically

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 04 Jan 2004, Mark Brown wrote: I think there's room for something along the lines of I want to spin non-free off as a separate project. Much of the concern over dropping non-free seems to be about having things just suddenly vanish. There's nothing in these proposals that would

Re: Another Non-Free Proposal

2004-01-04 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:48:01AM -0500, Dale E Martin wrote: The question isn't _what_ it's about, but what the point of it is -- what the goal is, what the achievement will be, what the aim is, _why_ this is worth doing. To me, it's worth doing because of your last sentence. We (the

Re: Candidate social contract amendments (part 1: editorial)

2004-01-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 14:48:34 +, Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:03:50AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 19:10:49 +, Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 02:56:27PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 15:10:59 +, Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:09:11AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Me; I would like to have a better handle on the reults of whatever actions are the logical conclusion of this opinion poll -- and even build upon the

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 16:52:12 +, Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:42:02AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: Because you have no problem you're trying to solve, you do not [can't] recognize other proposals to solve the same problem. On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Clint Adams
We made a promise to users; and even called it a ``contract''. Now we no longer want to keep that promise, so are we going to just leave the users in the lurch, with no transition plan, no support going forward? For people whoi seem to think that distributing non-DFSG free software

Re: The Free vs. Non-Free issue

2004-01-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 21:19:23 +, Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:00:09PM +, Mark Brown wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:10:59PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: and I've been following them carefully, and none of them have said anything appreciably

Re: GR: Removal of non-free

2004-01-04 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Jan 4, 2004, at 16:19, Sven Luther wrote: and it is still not possible to look at some banking web pages with a mozilla based browser. ... and it is with Netscape Communicator (if that is still in non-free)? and what about KHTML browsers, like Konqueror?