Re: [Fsf-Debian] [Fsf-collab] Introduction

2012-07-08 Thread John Sullivan
ons for the last 9 years. In my personal time, I'm also a Debian Developer, albeit one who makes very small contributions. :) My participation in this project will be with my official FSF hat on. I'm excited at all the interest in this so far! I will be around to participate more in

[Fsf-Debian] Apologies / Delay

2012-08-17 Thread John Sullivan
one's continued patience (especially Stefano's!) while I get it together. -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 61A0963B | http://identi.ca/johnsu01 | http://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Do you use free software? Donate to join the FSF and support freed

Re: [Fsf-Debian] Apologies / Delay

2012-09-25 Thread John Sullivan
Ben Finney writes: > John Sullivan writes: > >> I apologize for the continued delay in getting an "official" summary >> of where things stand to the list. The FSF has been an exceptionally >> busy place the last couple of weeks and I keep not getting to this a

Re: [Fsf-Debian] rar/unrar

2012-10-18 Thread John Sullivan
ps://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/free-rarv3-extraction I think this is the unar package in main. If this doesn't cover new formats, FSF would like to know about it. -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 61A0963B | http://identi.ca/johnsu01 | http:/

Re: [Fsf-Debian] rar/unrar

2012-10-18 Thread John Sullivan
Paul Wise writes: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 5:39 PM, John Sullivan wrote: > >> Which formats are those? >> >> https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/free-rarv3-extraction >> >> I think this is the unar package in main. >> >> If this doesn'

Re: [Fsf-Debian] rar/unrar

2012-10-18 Thread John Sullivan
Paul Wise writes: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:49 AM, John Sullivan wrote: > >> Where is this contesting happening? > > First I noticed was the clamav bug I mentioned earlier in the thread. > > I also started a private thread between the RAR folks and The > Unarchiver

Re: [Fsf-Debian] rar/unrar

2012-10-19 Thread John Sullivan
Paul Wise writes: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:16 AM, John Sullivan wrote: > >> Right, I read that thread, and the conclusion I saw was that there was >> no substantiated evidence of a copyright problem, or reason to think >> that a claim was going to be pursued. I&#

Re: [Fsf-Debian] Apologies / Delay

2013-02-07 Thread John Sullivan
d I talked at FOSDEM last week, and I am working on a write-up based on that to share with this list. -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 61A0963B | http://status.fsf.org/johns | http://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Do you use free software? Donate to join th

Re: [Fsf-Debian] LibrePlanet Talk

2013-03-25 Thread John Sullivan
ion of its free distribution standards, Debian will get some freedom bugs fixed according to its own standards, and our overall cooperation will be improved." -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 61A0963B | http://status.fsf.org/johns | http://fsf.org

Re: [Fsf-Debian] Stephano's talk at LibrePlanet

2013-06-25 Thread John Sullivan
new GNU MediaGoblin instance set up for this purpose, and Stefano's is part of that batch. -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 61A0963B | http://status.fsf.org/johns | http://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Do you use free software? Donate to join the FSF and

Re: [Fsf-Debian] A small thought on how Debian might be able to help.

2014-09-05 Thread John Sullivan
the only currently FSF-certified chipset, but we would consider others where there wasn't any firmware loaded by the kernel at all. The more user-modifiable the device is, the better, but our baseline standard only asks for no nonfree software. IIRC, Intel is worried about the FCC standards,

Re: [Fsf-Debian] A small thought on how Debian might be able to help.

2014-09-09 Thread John Sullivan
Ansgar Burchardt writes: > Hi, > > On 09/05/2014 19:05, John Sullivan wrote: >> For the FSF standards, the key is that there be no nonfree software. > > Is the key no non-free software or no non-free software that the user sees? > I know this topic is in general interes

Re: [Fsf-Debian] A small thought on how Debian might be able to help.

2014-09-09 Thread John Sullivan
Paul Wise writes: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 2:34 AM, John Sullivan wrote: > >> the general project of getting more firmware released as free software. > > A related thing would be for Debian to build our existing free > firmware from source instead of shipping existing bina

[Fsf-Debian] FSF and Debian BOF at Debconf on Friday

2016-07-03 Thread John Sullivan
ation will come. I'm also giving a talk on Saturday, July 9th, "Food for thought: Is free software vegan and open source vegetarian?" https://debconf16.debconf.org/talks/92/ -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 61A0963B | http://status.fsf.o

Re: [Fsf-Debian] Notice of mailing list closure: fsf-collab-discuss

2018-04-06 Thread John Sullivan
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