Re: Doubts and Ideas

2007-05-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 31 May 2007, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: > I remember that some people complained about given their copyright > to SPI (or $whoever), I think we should go with both options, I'm > only afraid about having material licensed under incompatible > licenses (could that happen?). We'

Re: Doubts and Ideas

2007-05-30 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/30/2007 10:23 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 30 May 2007, Josip Rodin wrote: >> It's unlikely that our web pages have much content for which there >> isn't prior art, or simply common knowledge. > > Prior art isn't an issue, since it's not p

Re: Doubts and Ideas

2007-05-30 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/30/2007 11:08 AM, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 06:20:40PM -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) > wrote: >> >> About a redesign >> >> >> I think that should be done, from time to time, usi

Re: Doubts and Ideas

2007-05-30 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/30/2007 05:51 PM, Peter Karlsson wrote: > Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña: > >> Even though the timeframe for the removal is rather large (6 months) >> it would be a nice addition to that service to have the actions e-mail >> to translators' list

Re: Doubts and Ideas

2007-05-30 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/30/2007 11:03 AM, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 12:00:38PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: >> The current system was implemented by Josip recently, and is a big >> improvement over the previous state: > > ...the previous state bein

Re: Doubts and Ideas

2007-05-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 30 May 2007, Josip Rodin wrote: > It's unlikely that our web pages have much content for which there > isn't prior art, or simply common knowledge. Prior art isn't an issue, since it's not patented. In any event, to resolve this issue completely all that we need is 1) a GPG signed email f

consistent usage of aptitude (was Re: Etch errata)

2007-05-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 30 May 2007 16:39, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > >> > > I thought aptitude was the recommended frontend. > >> > In the case of security updates, it does not matter, because there are > >> > no complex dependencies to be resolved, you only upgrade existing > >> > packages and there shoul

Re: Doubts and Ideas

2007-05-30 Thread MJ Ray
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 05:51:25PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Pe?a > wrote: > > - Debian-legal says that the website license (OPL) not DFSG-free (see > > http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20040312.160816.9f618d1f.html) > > This is the same

Re: Doubts and Ideas

2007-05-30 Thread Peter Karlsson
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña: Even though the timeframe for the removal is rather large (6 months) it would be a nice addition to that service to have the actions e-mail to translators' lists before they are taken (and content is removed from the website). Currently, the only mail produced

Re: Xcas / Giac in Debian

2007-05-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The procedure is described at [1]; it basically boils down to: "Please send us a bug report against the wnpp package". Links: 1: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ Yours sincerely, Alexander Thanks Alexander for your quick reply Regards Sébastien CELLES -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Processed: curb your enthusiasm ;)

2007-05-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 388141 www.debian.org SPI copyright claim not legally valid until all > contributors are contacted for relicensing Bug#388141: www.debian.org copyright statements are false & website is illegal to publish until all contributors are contacted f

Re: Doubts and Ideas

2007-05-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 05:51:25PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: > > What license problem? Everything is licensed to SPI, always has been. > > I'm suprised you ask this. Have you read 238245? Obviously not :) > Several problems: > > - The website claims the Copyright belongs to S

Who's using Debian?

2007-05-30 Thread Erik Pérez Domínguez
1. Co. AUSA, Almacenes Universales SA, Cuba 2. Commercial 3. /http://www.ausa.co.cu/ 4. The company counts on a network of 30 servers between its dependencies, 5 of them facing Internet. We used the Debian distribution. from July 2006. with the services of mail (pos

Re: Doubts and Ideas

2007-05-30 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 05:51:25PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > This means no content from the site can (legally) be copied over to, for > example, a GPL-licensed document (such as those produced by the DDP) or a > GPL program. For reference, this is #192748 (which was clon

Re: Doubts and Ideas

2007-05-30 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 10:25:31PM -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: > >> - Our procedure for out-of-date pages is this, the log of removed > >>pages is here. > > > > That would be nice, actually, an automatic mechanism that would mail the > > l10n mailings everytime a batch of

Re: Doubts and Ideas

2007-05-30 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 04:08:25PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > I'm unsure if we should start contacting contributors and fix the long > > standing license problem of the website. > > What license problem? Everything is licensed to SPI, always has been. I'm suprised you ask this. Have you read 2

Re: Etch errata

2007-05-30 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-28 21:49]: > On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 10:38:45PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> > > I thought aptitude was the recommended frontend. >> > >> > In the case of security updates, it does not matter, because there are no >> > complex dependencies to be resolv

Re: Xcas / Giac in Debian

2007-05-30 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070530 15:32]: > I'm looking for Xcas/Giac package in Debian [..] > I see the following page > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > but I don't see how to ask for a new package The procedure is described at [1]; it basically boils down to: "Please

Re: Doubts and Ideas

2007-05-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 06:20:40PM -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: > > About a redesign > > > I think that should be done, from time to time, using > proper CSS, to show people that the Web Team is alive and working. > I'm not saying to

Re: Doubts and Ideas

2007-05-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 12:00:38PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: > The current system was implemented by Josip recently, and is a big > improvement over the previous state: ...the previous state being that a vendor mails assorted bits of information to a mail address, and then a human editor *mus

Xcas / Giac in Debian

2007-05-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I'm looking for Xcas/Giac package in Debian http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/giac.html http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xcas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xcas I see the following page http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages but I don't see how to ask for a new package Regards --

Re: Doubts and Ideas

2007-05-30 Thread Richard Atterer
Hello, with my "CD vendor list editor" hat on: On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 10:25:31PM -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: > >> = > >> About "Who's using Debian" and CD Vendors > >> = > >> > >>It would be p