Re: about the GNU promise

2020-02-22 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mercredi 12 février 2020, 06:54:10 CET Mike Gerwitz a écrit : > On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 16:32:53 -0500, nylxs wrote: > > On 2/6/20 5:36 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> The goal is to acknowledge that GNU is not the only free software > >> provider, and that the GNU Project (socially) and the

Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] about the GNU promise

2020-02-15 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le jeudi 13 février 2020, 18:43:33 CET Ruben Safir a écrit : > On 2/12/20 12:54 AM, Mike Gerwitz wrote: > > Personal attacks weaken your argument and are not appropriate for this > > list. > > No censorship does that. Censorship doesn’t work since you circumvent it by using several mail and

Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] about the GNU promise

2020-02-14 Thread nipponmail
Translations are derivative works of the original. On 2020-02-14 18:45, Alexandre François Garreau wrote: Le lundi 3 février 2020, 16:28:52 CET Benno Schulenberg a écrit : But in practice the GNU project requires that significant contributors sign a copyright assignment, and that translators

Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] about the GNU promise

2020-02-14 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le lundi 3 février 2020, 16:28:52 CET Benno Schulenberg a écrit : > But in practice the GNU project requires > that significant contributors sign a copyright assignment, and that > translators sign a copyright disclaimer. Well, maybe it concerns only softwares, but once rms wrote something on ML

Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] about the GNU promise

2020-02-14 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mercredi 5 février 2020, 07:45:48 CET Kaz Kylheku (gnu-misc-discuss) a écrit : > On 2020-02-03 07:28, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > the GNU System". Oof... Who are those "companion free software > > projects"? > > This is basically just taking a mile-wide detour around saying "Linux". > >

Re: about the GNU promise

2020-02-11 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 16:32:53 -0500, nylxs wrote: > On 2/6/20 5:36 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> The goal is to acknowledge that GNU is not the only free software >> provider, and that the GNU Project (socially) and the GNU System >> (technically) has to work with these other free software

Re: about the GNU promise

2020-02-11 Thread Marius Bakke
nylxs writes: > That is because you fail to understand the importance of Free Software, > because honestly, you are so corrupt and greedy that you can't be > educated, and you can not be helped. Please keep personal attacks out of these discussions. I encourage you to read again the GNU Kind

Re: about the GNU promise

2020-02-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Benno, Benno Schulenberg skribis: > Anyway... I've carefully read https://wiki.gnu.tools/gnu:social-contract > (Last modified: 2020/01/22 11:55), and here are my comments. Thanks for taking the time to read it and to comment it. > Please don't call the document a Social Contract. The

Re: about the GNU promise

2020-02-07 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Benno, On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 04:28:52PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Maintainer of GNU nano talking here. I haven't followed the whole discussion, > but I've peeked at some of the archived emails, and was disheartened by the > tone and attitude in some of them. :| We do try very hard

Re: about the GNU promise

2020-02-06 Thread Jean Louis
* Benno Schulenberg [2020-02-05 08:36]: > > Hi all, > > Maintainer of GNU nano talking here. I haven't followed the whole discussion, > but I've peeked at some of the archived emails, and was disheartened by the > tone and attitude in some of them. :| > > Anyway... I've carefully read

Re: about the GNU promise

2020-02-05 Thread Kaz Kylheku (gnu-misc-discuss)
On 2020-02-03 07:28, Benno Schulenberg wrote: The second sentence says: "The GNU Project provides a software system..." The word "system" is both too vague and too all-encompassing; it sounds as It's just missing "operating" in front of it. if it wants to be a single, massive block of

Re: about the GNU promise

2020-02-05 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Hi Benno, The idea of a social contract, or any document that would require GNU maintainers or volunteers to agree to a set of philosophical points has already been dismissed. Those that have created this wiki page don't represent the GNU project, or have a mandate to decide.

about the GNU promise

2020-02-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi all, Maintainer of GNU nano talking here. I haven't followed the whole discussion, but I've peeked at some of the archived emails, and was disheartened by the tone and attitude in some of them. :| Anyway... I've carefully read https://wiki.gnu.tools/gnu:social-contract (Last modified: