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2024-06-11 Thread Richard Stallman
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Re: Feedback on our evaluation criteria

2024-05-27 Thread Richard Stallman
? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: Feedback on our evaluation criteria

2024-05-19 Thread Richard Stallman
throw hurdles in the way, such as non-free code, > captchas, 2FA, or gatekeepers - those are all part of the web culture This is a very interesting point. I will show it to someone who might write about it. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https:

Re: Feedback on our evaluation criteria

2024-05-18 Thread Richard Stallman
t problem alike. But there are various manners of treatment that we could apply to them all. This point is important, and we should make that clear to the reader. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (

Re: Feedback on our evaluation criteria

2024-05-18 Thread Richard Stallman
dging repos does not imply that we try to dictate to everyone what they can do. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: Feedback on our evaluation criteria

2024-05-16 Thread Richard Stallman
erse would want to see. That way we could look at this question more clearly. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: Feedback on our evaluation criteria

2024-05-16 Thread Richard Stallman
s, such as encouraging bad practices. I think the current classification of these two is correct, but we should talk about the gravity of the B2 failure in a way that clearly makes this distinction. And yes, we should say that about each site that fails B2. Perhaps we should say that

Re: Feedback on our evaluation criteria

2024-05-16 Thread Richard Stallman
o heed our adcice, they ca do whatever they like. If they disagree with some critera, they don't need our explicit permission to disregard those. However, for those that want to heed our advice, we sh0uld give them the same advice we give each other. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallma

Re: Feedback on our evaluation criteria

2024-05-16 Thread Richard Stallman
about this. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: A+ 0

2024-04-23 Thread Richard Stallman
done that. However, I wouldn't okject to an A+ criterion of "no nonfree JS at all in the pages" or "no JS at all in the pages." -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (http

Re: LibreJS (was Re: CodeBerg addition)

2024-03-19 Thread Richard Stallman
rification can be done with LibreJS. That avoids the need for various humans to "human-verify" it. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: LibreJS (was Re: CodeBerg addition)

2024-03-19 Thread Richard Stallman
gt; do we keep things progressing so they get completed? For reviews of repo sites, we use the list repo-criteria-discuss@gnu.org. I don't know of any other way, but it seems to be enough. We're waiting for people to finish the work of evaluating codeberg. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallm

Re: EFF and ethical repository criteria

2024-02-14 Thread Richard Stallman
; > Is this text still appropriate? Not enirely. I will look at it. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: EFF and ethical repository criteria

2024-02-04 Thread Richard Stallman
the EFF's "best practices" are wise, as far as they go, for avoiding other kinds of mistreatment. I will look. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: LibreJS (was Re: CodeBerg addition)

2024-01-24 Thread Richard Stallman
iles*, or (2) isn't necessary, so that the function works > properly even if JavaScript is disabled in the browser. I think this is a good change. Does anyone argue against it? How about if we copy the current C0.0 into level B? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNU

Re: LibreJS (was Re: CodeBerg addition)

2024-01-15 Thread Richard Stallman
etween "is free" (verified at the time of review) for level C and > satisfies-LibreJS for level B Th enext step is to see what other people have to say about it. I'm the one who makes the decision but other people's arguments will affect my conclusions. -- Dr Richard Stallman (h

Re: LibreJS (was Re: CodeBerg addition)

2024-01-15 Thread Richard Stallman
go to > Codeberg docs instead of the choosealicense website. Unfortunately, > these fixes did not resolve the LibreJS flagging. Can someone figure out why not? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https:

Re: LibreJS (was Re: CodeBerg addition)

2024-01-11 Thread Richard Stallman
ter of voting, but that could be a good idea. "Satisfies LibreJS" could go in level B, leaving "is free" in level C. > Is there a chance that the simple fix to the licenses URL link will > address issues with LibreJS? Try it and see! -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://

Re: CodeBerg addition

2024-01-10 Thread Richard Stallman
ld not "give them credit for good intentions". But it is good to give them helpful feedback and encouragement in getting it right. We should tell them we're eager for them to properly implement those good intentions. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of

Re: CodeBerg addition

2024-01-10 Thread Richard Stallman
rea, we could simply wait a few weeks and see if they fix it. There is no super rush about adding any entry. We want to add more, but no one entry is ever urgent unless it is negative ;-{. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder,

Re: LibreJS (was Re: CodeBerg addition)

2024-01-06 Thread Richard Stallman
ife > easier to comply are welcome :) All else being equal, we would like to make it easier -- but not by eviscerating the checking it is supposed to do. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://f

Re: LibreJS (was Re: CodeBerg addition)

2024-01-06 Thread Richard Stallman
were only one site that needed this, but it is does not scale to handling thousands of sites. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: LibreJS (was Re: CodeBerg addition)

2024-01-05 Thread Richard Stallman
specific idea for what improvement. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: LibreJS (was Re: CodeBerg addition)

2024-01-05 Thread Richard Stallman
we halp do that? It is much better to do work to make the code clearly licensed than to do work to avoid saying whether it is clearly licensed. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org

Re: CodeBerg addition

2024-01-04 Thread Richard Stallman
ear to me. What exactly are you proposing we do? And why? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: CodeBerg addition

2024-01-02 Thread Richard Stallman
quot;inherited software interface"? Those words can be parsed in multiple ways. What is inherited from what? When we are ready to post the evaluation, it could be useful for one of us (you?) to show them the draft we will post. They might decide to fix B2 right away so that they will get a B. --

B2

2024-01-02 Thread Richard Stallman
;choosing" a license, it is a matter of stating the license that someone else chose. It would be bad for a site to refuse to host forks of GPL-2-only packages. A site could require that people ask permission to make a repo with GPL-2-only as the license. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stal

Re: Proposal

2023-12-21 Thread Richard Stallman
correct, but it is not sufficient on its own, because it is too abstract to give a concrete picture. What are the concrete requirements for the "canonical source" in a free package manager? I don't know. Maybe your full proposal would be good, if suppliemented with a concrete expla

Re: A+ 0

2023-12-20 Thread Richard Stallman
otally clear. I think these would be clearer. Does not impose any authentication requirements for visitors to operate on projects, other than what the managers of each project have chosen. WDYT> -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.or

Re: Proposal

2023-12-18 Thread Richard Stallman
ism rather than a description of a behavior. What bad thing does an API key do in this situation? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

A+ 0

2023-12-17 Thread Richard Stallman
and download without authenticating. (A+0) should have an exception for private repos -- those that are explicitly not accessible by the general public. What do you think of this? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free

Re: Proposal

2023-12-17 Thread Richard Stallman
per A+ 0? This is a good point. I think you are suggesting that we rewrite this criterion (currenty A+ 0) to make it more strict. You did not speak of rewriting, but I think rewriting would be needed, to do this. Can you suggest new wording? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief

Re: Proposal

2023-12-16 Thread Richard Stallman
per A+ 0? This is a good point. I think you are suggesting that we rewrite this criterion (currenty A+ 0) to make it more strict. You did not speak of rewriting, but I think rewriting would be needed, to do this. Can you suggest new wording? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief

Re: New reviews

2023-11-29 Thread Richard Stallman
DF GIT Society. Thank you. I am glad to see us aking progress. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: CodeBerg addition

2023-11-08 Thread Richard Stallman
that. We simply need people to do the evaluation and figure out the answers. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: Notabug.org should be moved to B tier

2023-11-04 Thread Richard Stallman
eneral Public License > > The Apache License > > The two clause BSD License > > The three clause BSD License > > The MIT License This doesn't particularly recommend any of the permitted licenses more than any other. So I'd say it does not pass A2. Do you s

Re: Notabug.org should be moved to B tier

2023-11-04 Thread Richard Stallman
for its having a bug? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: Notabug.org should be moved to B tier

2023-10-30 Thread Richard Stallman
sed in > the homepage <https://notabug.org> for me. I wonder what is going on here. Is the JS code in that page marked as free? Is it in fact free? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.o

Re: Notabug.org should be moved to B tier

2023-10-29 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Thank you for reporting this. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief

Re: Notabug.org should be moved to B tier

2023-10-29 Thread Richard Stallman
, what would be the flaws that prevent it from advancing to grade A? We would want to mention those in https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation

Re: Remove flags from language picker

2022-07-07 Thread Richard Stallman
d be glad to replace flags for that. Concretely, what would we use instead? What exact URL can I find "the language picker" at? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Int

Re: Github and two-factor authentication

2022-05-19 Thread Richard Stallman
GitHub account without using github.com and its nonfree JavaScript. > The situation might change when they actually start requiring > two-factor authentication, but it seems okay to me for right now. That's a relief. Thanks for checking. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chi

Github and two-factor authentication

2022-05-08 Thread Richard Stallman
. According to my memory, it doesn't require nonfree JS code for usage once the account exists. That's where this change could make GitHub quantitatively much worse. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation

Re: proposed new criteria

2022-05-06 Thread Richard Stallman
e-line > > or two-line description of the change. > Good idea. I've just done that. > I've also added a link to that page from repo-criteria.html, which > mentions the proposed list and encourages people to give feedback: That is good. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman

clarification of new criterion

2022-05-05 Thread Richard Stallman
What do people think of this? Recommends GPL 3-or-later over others. Let's clarify this to say Recommends GPL 3-or-later over other licensing options. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation

Additional addition: B2-0

2022-05-05 Thread Richard Stallman
to people that those two words include this. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: proposed new criteria

2022-05-05 Thread Richard Stallman
ce. I think it would help people read this to divide the list of changes into two sublists, one for substantial changes and one for clarifications of wording. For the three that are substantive, it would be good to add a one-line or two-line description of the change. -- Dr Richard Sta

Re: fyi: gitlab now requires nonfree js to log in

2022-04-26 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Thanks. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU

Additional addition: B2-0

2022-04-25 Thread Richard Stallman
of including a license notice in all nontrivial source files, not just in a few places. While this is included in "unclear licensing" in B2, I fear it won't be clear to people that those two words include this. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the G

Re: proposed new criteria

2022-04-25 Thread Richard Stallman
nges and one for clarifications of wording. For the three that are substantive, it would be good to add a one-line or two-line description of the change. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.o

clarification of new criterion

2022-04-25 Thread Richard Stallman
GPL 3-or-later over other licensing options. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: fyi: gitlab now requires nonfree js to log in

2022-04-24 Thread Richard Stallman
out > things that prevent it from moving up to a C to include this. If this isn't mentioned, it should be. Would someone like to handle this? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Interne

Re: fyi: gitlab now requires nonfree js to log in

2022-04-23 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Didn't we update that, and reduce gitlab.com's grade to F? -- Dr Richard Stallman

Re: proposed new criteria

2022-04-21 Thread Richard Stallman
criteria, and see repo-criteria.html for our actual, current repo criteria. Posting this would enable us to get comments more and work towards making this change. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation

Re: proposed new criteria

2022-04-05 Thread Richard Stallman
this would enable us to get comments more and work towards making this change. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: You rate savannah.gnu.org at A? AYFKM?

2022-04-05 Thread Richard Stallman
ke the final decisions. I take full responsibility for these decisions. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: You rate savannah.gnu.org at A? AYFKM?

2022-03-17 Thread Richard Stallman
have shown me many URLs, and I don't have time to figure out which one you mean now. > So what does that make "we're perfectly happy doing nasty practice X", > where X is discriminating against people with disabilities? That makes it a stance that isn't our stance. -- Dr

Re: You rate savannah.gnu.org at A? AYFKM?

2022-03-07 Thread Richard Stallman
o beyond what the accepted moral standards imply. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: You rate savannah.gnu.org at A? AYFKM?

2022-03-04 Thread Richard Stallman
e, but not a moral goal. "We will set an example of not doing nasty practice X" starts to adopt a moral goal. "We will put an end to the nasty practice X" is a real moral goal. I explain this in the hope you may understand better what I have said. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://s

Re: You rate savannah.gnu.org at A? AYFKM?

2022-02-28 Thread Richard Stallman
consider mine -- but you're not. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: You rate savannah.gnu.org at A? AYFKM?

2022-02-23 Thread Richard Stallman
sue of features not freedom and (2) why software freedom is properly a higher priority than features, if you were inclined to have a thoughtful discussion about these questions. But you're not inclined to do that, so I don't see a point in explaining. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)

Re: You rate savannah.gnu.org at A? AYFKM?

2022-02-22 Thread Richard Stallman
> requirements would make this already difficult challenge even moreso. We must stay focused on our purpose, and not give priority to tangential "nice things to have." -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder,

Re: proposed new criteria

2022-02-22 Thread Richard Stallman
this change. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: You rate savannah.gnu.org at A? AYFKM?

2022-02-19 Thread Richard Stallman
priorities. Do you have different priorities? I think so. I believe you are sincere about your priorities -- please recognize that we are sincere about ours. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation

Re: Installing backlog of approved changes

2022-02-08 Thread Richard Stallman
announce the change with, so it won't be wasted effort. But first, it will help us confirm that these changes are really a good idea. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall

Re: Gitlab C2

2021-11-05 Thread Richard Stallman
t. Can users in Iran access GitLab.com via a proxy outside Iran, such as Tor? If they can, I think that exculpates GitLab itself -- from this. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) I

Re: Gitlab C2

2021-11-04 Thread Richard Stallman
com say its policy is towards use by Iranians in Iran? That is important, too. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: Gitlab C2

2021-11-02 Thread Richard Stallman
resses might be blocked for other reasons, though, it would be > helpful to see if someone on a normal Iranian residential address has > the same problem. But I don't think that's strictly necessary. What exactly are people trying to confirm? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallma

Re: Gitlab C2

2021-11-01 Thread Richard Stallman
against users in some country? What does GitLab say about the question? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: Gitlab C2

2021-11-01 Thread Richard Stallman
com and to the gitlab software, There is no doubt about that! We will treat gitlab.com as one thing and the Gitlab software as another thing. For now, I believe, we are rating gitlab.com. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, F

Re: Summary of repo-criteria changes

2021-10-10 Thread Richard Stallman
ss all 'B' criteria; but it still has not met B0 and B2 - i > will add it with an overall 'C' grade initially Thanks for paying close attention. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)

Re: Please review codeberg.org

2021-10-10 Thread Richard Stallman
perations do their jobs, Sometimes there are scripts which do unimportant things, so that the page is usable even though they are blocked. We can judge those pages as ok. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Fou

Re: Summary of repo-criteria changes

2021-10-06 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Thank you. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance

Re: Ethical repository criteria rating for Sourcehut

2021-07-31 Thread Richard Stallman
omeone like to turn this into a patch ready to install in https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer

Re: Substantive changes in repo-criteria.html

2021-07-03 Thread Richard Stallman
comments related to each item, in their distinct contexts Posting a summary of the proposed changes sounds like a good idea. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)

Re: at which level, is adequate licensing documentation required?

2021-07-03 Thread Richard Stallman
t; yes, i think so What do other people think? Does anyone see a valid argument for not making that change? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Fam

Substantive changes in repo-criteria.html

2021-07-01 Thread Richard Stallman
a file repo-criteria-proposed.html to use for posting those proposals, saying that they are proposed and not adopted. Does anyone see a reason not to do that? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation

Re: [PATCH]: criteria A+1

2021-07-01 Thread Richard Stallman
is in them. For me, at least, it would be more convenient to put them directly into the message body. Is there a practical benefit in using the attachments? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https

Re: [PATCH]: refer to hosts by their domain name

2021-07-01 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Thanks. I will install this. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief

Re: [PATCH]: domain names note

2021-07-01 Thread Richard Stallman
issues (all but A1). > + > +Therefore, here we address the ethics of the service operators. This is good as a start. I'll install it in a couple of days if no one presents a need to change it first. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org

Re: [PATCH]: add new criteria A+7

2021-06-30 Thread Richard Stallman
able future The question that matters is not "Is It Likely", but "What can we do to encourage it?" Making this part of our criteria has a chance of success. Not making it part of our criteria won't improve anything. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU P

Re: [PATCH]: add new criteria A+7

2021-06-30 Thread Richard Stallman
notices. And it does not _remind_ them. To remind them means to tell them that some files lack notices. THis is a very important feature that forges should implement. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Founda

Re: how much of a forge is SaaSS?

2021-06-30 Thread Richard Stallman
g on that project, that is not SaaSS. In this case, _the project_ is using the forge. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: [PATCH]: criteria A4

2021-06-30 Thread Richard Stallman
uires some other work, let's get rid of it. Requires all works in publicly accessible repos to be licensed to permit at least sharing of copies (noncommercial redistribution of exact copies). (A4-1) -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Proj

Re: at which level, is adequate licensing documentation required?

2021-06-30 Thread Richard Stallman
tation required? I say B is the right level. It is the level of "more or less doing things the right way". The C level is "avoiding things that are really really bad". The A level is "doing things really right." -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief

Re: at which level, is adequate licensing documentation required?

2021-06-30 Thread Richard Stallman
make it redundant with the proposed B2.1. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: at which level, is adequate licensing documentation required?

2021-06-30 Thread Richard Stallman
ites do tend to offer licensing options, I presumed they all would do that. Should B2 reject sites that say nothing about licensing options? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) I

Re: Please review codeberg.org

2021-06-30 Thread Richard Stallman
tification? That is also an ancillary part of a communication activity. All communication activity includes parts that are computational. We should not be too fussy about them when we judge what is SaaSS, because that would only make trouble for ourselves. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) C

Re: [PATCH]: criteria A+1

2021-06-29 Thread Richard Stallman
ke it read better and be less informal: Note that this criterion is based solely on the good faith of the forge operators. There is no way to verify from outside that the service does not log connections. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Proj

Re: [PATCH]: criteria A4

2021-06-29 Thread Richard Stallman
of time on defining that term. It was an abbreviation I used once, nothing more. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: Please review codeberg.org

2021-06-29 Thread Richard Stallman
other things mean -- the items are too terse to tell me. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: [PATCH]: add new criteria A+7

2021-06-28 Thread Richard Stallman
utting it at the top of A+ makes sense to me, as it's an important > criterion and we want to make it prominent. What do you think of putting it in the A level? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundati

Re: Please review codeberg.org

2021-06-27 Thread Richard Stallman
gt; also uploads its binary artifact to some other server as a > "nightly" release Thanks. CD, as thus defined, is not _in itself_ SaaSS. It is just a matter of allowing access to download certain files. CI can be SaaSS, but not CD. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.or

Re: Please review codeberg.org

2021-06-27 Thread Richard Stallman
I just don't see the reason to. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: Please review codeberg.org

2021-06-27 Thread Richard Stallman
nes, and > it is fully controllable with the script written by the user, it > shouldn't be SaaSS. I think you are right, in regard to CI. The other case where CI is not SaasSS is when the CI service is provided by a project you are working on. That is often the case for GNU. -- Dr Richard Stallm

Re: [PATCH]: add new criteria B2.1

2021-06-27 Thread Richard Stallman
ishing between the GPL (2 and 3)-only > +and the GPL (2 and 3)-or-later. Use of "(2 and 3)" makes this harder to understand. Would you please distribute those operations all the way? It would be longer but it would be clearer. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.o

Re: [PATCH]: criteria C5

2021-06-27 Thread Richard Stallman
least as much as any other kind of licensing. (C5) > +No other license is more recommended than the GPL 3-or-later. > +(C5) The negation makes this harder to understand (for people not accustomed to set theory and complex grammar), so we should not make this change. --

Re: [PATCH]: domain names note

2021-06-27 Thread Richard Stallman
of github.com and gitlab.com. Would someone like to fix that? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: repo criteria changes

2021-06-27 Thread Richard Stallman
if the file has a nonsharing license, they would not be allowed to redistribute copies of it to others after downloading it. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall

Re: repo criteria changes

2021-06-27 Thread Richard Stallman
A4. You understand it right. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

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