Re: Firefox addon signing

2015-08-30 Thread Seth Johnson
There can be alternative authorities, and you could opt to choose them nstead. It's really a question of having the option of not relying on Mozilla's decisions. It's not a choice of either each individual's own keys or the original authority who's the one true authority. Self-signing means

Re: Licensing change: Audacious - GPLv3 -- BSD

2012-07-10 Thread Seth Johnson
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:57:31 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: Saying things like: and arbitrary other people, who get their patch contributions merged, don't gain any copyright protection on the file or the proper

Re: Licensing change: Audacious - GPLv3 -- BSD

2012-07-09 Thread Seth Johnson
You need to get the permission of everyone who contributed code to the GPL'd codebase, to convert to the BSD license. Not sure I can comment on translations. It's far easier to convert from BSD to GPL, specifically because the BSD is so permissive. One theoretically supposes somebody might have

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-25 Thread Seth Johnson
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: I'm reading they're going to use a modified Intel efilinux, not writing a new boot loader. And that they will not require either signed kernel

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-20 Thread Seth Johnson
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:04 AM, nomnex nom...@gmail.com wrote: Things have changed. That's a good news (for once). Thanks for the update. Bravo, so apparently there is a leader on this, a free software UEFI on its own trustworthy hardware, that hopefully will tell the truth to the user about

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-20 Thread Seth Johnson
Proceed to the next paragraph then. ;-) Seth On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 01:19:22PM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:04 AM, nomnex nom...@gmail.com wrote: Things have changed. That's a good news

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-19 Thread Seth Johnson
Moral rights are from the Civil Code/French tradition. We don't do moral rights, although certain interests keep trying. Moral rights in the copyright context (I am unaware that they exist outside copyright) are a right of attribution and a right of integrity. We don't have these in the US

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-19 Thread Seth Johnson
The positive/negative right formulation is a post-New Deal notion, rooted in the question of whether it has been textually granted -- very different from the notion that we hold rights prior to government. It may be that we can describe all rights regardless of whether they are the result of

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-19 Thread Seth Johnson
Minor clarifying insert: On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Seth Johnson seth.p.john...@gmail.com wrote: The positive/negative right formulation is a post-New Deal notion, rooted in the question of whether it has been textually granted -- very different from the notion that we hold rights prior

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-18 Thread Seth Johnson
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 01:47:34AM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Seth Johnson seth.p.john...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sorry, I really don't understand what you're suggesting here. It's

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-18 Thread Seth Johnson
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Peter Jones pjo...@redhat.com wrote: On 06/18/2012 01:17 AM, Seth Johnson wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 01:09:52AM -0400, Jay Sulzberger wrote: Bob Young, a master of propaganda

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-18 Thread Seth Johnson
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 08:45:07AM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: The features you wanted in a free software UEFI are present in existing UEFI

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-18 Thread Seth Johnson
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:20:05AM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote: It's apparently difficult to recognize Jay's argument, immediately above.  Jay did not say you currently cannot get an ARM key.  I did not present

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-18 Thread Seth Johnson
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:43:27AM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: Like I said before, the existing UEFI implementations on the existing hardware

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-18 Thread Seth Johnson
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:04:38AM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: Ok so what you mean is I want a UEFI implementation that doesn't require

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-18 Thread Seth Johnson
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:14:04AM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: So you want Fedora to boot on all hardware sold? I want Red Hat, Fedora

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-18 Thread Seth Johnson
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:35:40 +0200 We really can't know whats going to happen down the road, we can only act on it as we know it. LOL -- by all the signs we have available to know it. Seth -- devel mailing list

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-18 Thread Seth Johnson
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 09:35 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: I hesitate to put words in people's mouths, and correct me if I'm wrong, but it reads to me as if Jay and others are arguing from an incorrect premise. That

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-17 Thread Seth Johnson
to be done can certainly be done with some grace. But it's not the finesse that's needed at this juncture you are now sitting in the middle of. It's the fight. Seth Johnson -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-17 Thread Seth Johnson
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 07:54:17PM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 17.06.2012 01:14, schrieb Chris Murphy: Please provide an example

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-17 Thread Seth Johnson
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Jay Sulzberger j...@panix.com wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Gerald Henriksen ghenr...@gmail.com wrote: Not to mention that you are effectively telling anyone not currently using Red Hat Hardware that they can't run Linux, thus eliminating the ability to gain

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-17 Thread Seth Johnson
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:54:56AM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote: But the best thing is that a free software UEFI would let anybody put their own key as hardware root, and this would stymie the rationalizing of big shots

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-17 Thread Seth Johnson
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 01:00:33AM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:54:56AM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-17 Thread Seth Johnson
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 01:09:52AM -0400, Jay Sulzberger wrote: The game is now just about over.  What if one day, Microsoft makes it even harder to install Fedora without a Microsoft controlled key?  What if, as has

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-17 Thread Seth Johnson
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Seth Johnson seth.p.john...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 01:00:33AM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote