Re: cdrtools vs cdrkit: flogging the dead horse

2009-01-14 Thread John Moser
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Jason Crain  wrote:
> On Wed, January 14, 2009 7:21 am, Jason Crain wrote:
>> On Wed, January 14, 2009 7:08 am, Odysseus Flappington wrote:
 The reason it's not in non-free (i.e. multiverse, in Ubuntu), is that
 distributing it is currently believed to be a contravention of the
 copyright interests of the owners of the elements licensed under the
 GPL. When we believe that something is a violation of civil law to
>>>
>>> I'm not really taking sides here since I don't have enough
>>> information, but out of curiosity, what do you mean when you say
>>> "contravention of the copyright interests of the owners of the
>>> elements licensed under the GPL."?
>>
>> It means that Schilling is a disagreeable person and does not approve of
>> the ways cdrecord has been modified.  He eventually changed the licensing
>> to prevent certain modifications, so there was a fork.
>
> Sorry, I should really read the entire thread.  cdrecord requires a CDDL
> licensed build system, which is incompatible with the GPL licensed code.
> With the license incompatibilities it cannot be redistributed at all, not
> even in non-free.

The code is GPL?

The build system is CDDL?

... rip the code, incorporate into wodim, rebuild on GPL build system.

I know, not simple.
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Re: cdrtools vs cdrkit: flogging the dead horse

2009-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:08:30PM +, Odysseus Flappington wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > The reason it's not in non-free (i.e. multiverse, in Ubuntu), is that
> > distributing it is currently believed to be a contravention of the
> > copyright interests of the owners of the elements licensed under the
> > GPL. When we believe that something is a violation of civil law to
> 
> I'm not really taking sides here since I don't have enough
> information, but out of curiosity, what do you mean when you say
> "contravention of the copyright interests of the owners of the
> elements licensed under the GPL."?

Jason's second post (regarding the CDDL) accurately describes what I
meant.

It is not my intention to rehash the argument here, and I really don't
want to get into an extended argument about copyright law, the GPL,
and/or the CDDL; I also don't think it will be helpful to jump in on the
negotiation in progress. Some of my colleagues have worked with the
Software Freedom Law Center to offer a licence modification which we
believe would address the incompatibility, but at the moment we can only
play a waiting game.

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Re: FTBFS for xf86-input-evtouch in Jaunty

2009-01-14 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi,
Am Mittwoch, den 14.01.2009, 20:42 +0530 schrieb Vishal Rao:
> Thanks a lot for fixing the package!
> 
> The package itself worked but I've filed another bug 317127 about the
> calibrate tool not detecting mouse position.
right, more important was to have the package in at all, toffee and
flowers need to go to Thomas Jaeger who did an awesome job to fix the
build issues :) 
jaunty is still in open development, so we should be able to shake out
the remaining bugs until feature freeze ...

ciao
oli


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Re: FTBFS for xf86-input-evtouch in Jaunty

2009-01-14 Thread Vishal Rao
Thanks a lot for fixing the package!

The package itself worked but I've filed another bug 317127 about the
calibrate tool not detecting mouse position.

Regards,
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Re: Ubuntu openoffice.org 1:3.0.1~rc1-2ubuntu3

2009-01-14 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi,

Ubuntu Merge-o-Matic wrote:
[...]
> Changes: 
>  openoffice.org (1:3.0.1~rc1-2ubuntu3) jaunty; urgency=low
>  .
>* Demote lp-solve from Depends to Suggests since it won't fit on the CD.
>* Demote more java related Recommends to Suggests since it won't fit on the
>  CD.

Uhm... See below.

[...]
> diff -pruN 1:3.0.1~rc1-2ubuntu2/debian/control.help.in 
> 1:3.0.1~rc1-2ubuntu3/debian/control.help.in
> --- 1:3.0.1~rc1-2ubuntu2/debian/control.help.in   2009-01-14 
> 01:27:14.0 +
> +++ 1:3.0.1~rc1-2ubuntu3/debian/control.help.in   2009-01-14 
> 01:26:14.0 +
> @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
>  Package: openoffice.orgver-he...@lcode@
>  Architecture: all
>  Section: doc
> -Recommends: openoffice.orgVER-core (>> ${base-version}) | 
> language-support-translatio...@ccode@, ${lucene-depends}, 
> ${java-common-depends}
>  Depends: openoffice.orgVER-writer | language-support-translatio...@ccode@, 
> openoffice.orgver-l1...@lcode@
> +Recommends: openoffice.orgVER-core (>> ${base-version}) | 
> language-support-translatio...@ccode@
> +Suggests: ${lucene-depends}, ${java-common-depends}

How will you ensure that people get liblucene2-java (and
openoffice.org-java-common) when they want search in the help? A error will
be shown when you don#t have -java-common, but nothing for liblucene2-java.

That will only cause more of "Ubuntus packages are broken, because you
can't search in the help" - which then also falls back to Debian...

> diff -pruN 1:3.0.1~rc1-2ubuntu2/debian/control.in 
> 1:3.0.1~rc1-2ubuntu3/debian/control.in
> --- 1:3.0.1~rc1-2ubuntu2/debian/control.in2009-01-14 01:27:14.0 
> +
> +++ 1:3.0.1~rc1-2ubuntu3/debian/control.in2009-01-14 01:26:14.0 
> +
> @@ -344,8 +344,8 @@ Package: openoffice.orgVER-calc
>  Architecture: %OOO_ARCHS%
>  Depends: openoffice.orgVER-core (= ${Source-Version}),
>   openoffice.orgVER-base-core (= ${Source-Version}),
> - ${shlibs:Depends},
> - ${lpsolve-dep}
> + ${shlibs:Depends}
> +Suggests: ${lpsolve-dep}
>  Replaces: openoffice.org2-core (<< 1.9.113-0pre1), 
>   openoffice.org (<< 1.9),
>   openoffice.org-debian-files,

But libs in -calc are linked agianst liblpsolve55.so...
(libsolver*.so)

> diff -pruN 1:3.0.1~rc1-2ubuntu2/debian/control.ure.in 
> 1:3.0.1~rc1-2ubuntu3/debian/control.ure.in
> --- 1:3.0.1~rc1-2ubuntu2/debian/control.ure.in2009-01-14 
> 01:27:14.0 +
> +++ 1:3.0.1~rc1-2ubuntu3/debian/control.ure.in2009-01-14 
> 01:26:14.0 +
> @@ -47,8 +47,7 @@ Package: ure
>  Section: libs
>  Architecture: %OOO_ARCHS%
>  Depends: uno-libs3 (= ${ure:Version}), ${shlibs:Depends}
> -Recommends: java2-runtime
> -Suggests: cli-uno-bridge
> +Suggests: cli-uno-bridge, java2-runtime
>  Conflicts: cli-uno-bridge (<< 1:3.0.0~dev300m22)
>  Replaces: openoffice.org-java-common (<< 1:3.0.0~dev300m12)
>  Description: UNO runtime environment

That's ok.

Grüße/Regards,

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[BUG] Ubuntu 8.04, XRDP 0.4.0~dfsg-3

2009-01-14 Thread Путин Андрей
Hello!

Package xrdp don't work.

when you trying to connect over xrdp, it's show you the windows, but after
you enering user/pass on display appear error (last line is "Some
problem").

More info about it:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/xrdp-authenticates-but-does-not-load-x-server-rdp-592138/
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xrdp/+bug/220005



Best regargs, Putin Andrey,
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Re : New Year... New Hug Day! - 15 January 2009

2009-01-14 Thread Sandy Hary RARIVOSON
hi,

best wish for year 2009, i'm still enjoying receiving any news fror you.

Have a nice day 

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commence par un engagement triomphal dans le présent.»
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--- En date de : Lun 12.1.09, Pedro Villavicencio Garrido  a 
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> De: Pedro Villavicencio Garrido 
> Objet: New Year... New Hug Day! - 15 January 2009
> À: ubuntu...@lists.ubuntu.com, ubuntu-news-t...@lists.ubuntu.com, 
> ubuntu-devel-annou...@lists.ubuntu.com, ubuntu-bugsq...@lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Lundi 12 Janvier 2009, 19h51
> Happy New Year Ubuntu Lovers!,
> 
> We're organizing the first Ubuntu Bug Day of this year
> and the package
> selected for this awesome event is: your lovely Network
> Manager!
> 
> Bookmark it, add it to your calendars, turn over your
> egg-timers!
> 
> * Thursday 15 January.
> * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20090115
> 
> BLOG IT! Especially those on the Planet! There are people
> who want to
> help but don't know how and sit on the sidelines of the
> blog-o-sphere
> reading; I need your help to get those eyes from blogs to
> bugs. Let us
> combine blog-powers to educate, "Bug work is a fun way
> to get involved!"
> I think the best effect will be if we coordinate together
> in our blogs:
>  * Publish about the Hug Day Thursday 15 January to get
> everyone
> excited.
>  * Hug some bugs and add yourself to the HugDay's wiki
> for your readers!
> 
> Wanna be famous? Is easy! remember to use 5-A-day[1] so if
> you do a good
> work your name could be listed at the top 5-A-Day
> Contributors in the
> Ubuntu Hall of Fame[2] page!!
> 
> Make a difference: Join the Hug Day on Thursday 15 January.
> We will be
> in #ubuntu-bugs (FreeNode) all day and night, and will be
> ready to
> answer your questions about how to help.
> 
> If you're new to all this, head to
>http://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs
> 
> 1- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/5-A-Day
> 2- http://hall-of-fame.ubuntu.com/
> 
> Have a nice day,
> 
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Re: New Year... New Hug Day! - 15 January 2009

2009-01-14 Thread Allen Zhu
Where do we go to hug people?

You said "Re: New Year... New Hug Day! - 15 January 2009"!

Allen Zhu
Webmaster/IT
Digital Clubhouse Network
allen.jalo...@gmail.com

On 1/12/09, Pedro Villavicencio Garrido  wrote:
> Happy New Year Ubuntu Lovers!,
>
> We're organizing the first Ubuntu Bug Day of this year and the package
> selected for this awesome event is: your lovely Network Manager!
>
> Bookmark it, add it to your calendars, turn over your egg-timers!
>
> * Thursday 15 January.
> * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20090115
>
> BLOG IT! Especially those on the Planet! There are people who want to
> help but don't know how and sit on the sidelines of the blog-o-sphere
> reading; I need your help to get those eyes from blogs to bugs. Let us
> combine blog-powers to educate, "Bug work is a fun way to get involved!"
> I think the best effect will be if we coordinate together in our blogs:
>  * Publish about the Hug Day Thursday 15 January to get everyone
> excited.
>  * Hug some bugs and add yourself to the HugDay's wiki for your readers!
>
> Wanna be famous? Is easy! remember to use 5-A-day[1] so if you do a good
> work your name could be listed at the top 5-A-Day Contributors in the
> Ubuntu Hall of Fame[2] page!!
>
> Make a difference: Join the Hug Day on Thursday 15 January. We will be
> in #ubuntu-bugs (FreeNode) all day and night, and will be ready to
> answer your questions about how to help.
>
> If you're new to all this, head to
>   http://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs
>
> 1- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/5-A-Day
> 2- http://hall-of-fame.ubuntu.com/
>
> Have a nice day,
>
> pedro.
>
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Re: cdrtools vs cdrkit: flogging the dead horse

2009-01-14 Thread Jason Crain
On Wed, January 14, 2009 7:21 am, Jason Crain wrote:
> On Wed, January 14, 2009 7:08 am, Odysseus Flappington wrote:
>>> The reason it's not in non-free (i.e. multiverse, in Ubuntu), is that
>>> distributing it is currently believed to be a contravention of the
>>> copyright interests of the owners of the elements licensed under the
>>> GPL. When we believe that something is a violation of civil law to
>>
>> I'm not really taking sides here since I don't have enough
>> information, but out of curiosity, what do you mean when you say
>> "contravention of the copyright interests of the owners of the
>> elements licensed under the GPL."?
>
> It means that Schilling is a disagreeable person and does not approve of
> the ways cdrecord has been modified.  He eventually changed the licensing
> to prevent certain modifications, so there was a fork.

Sorry, I should really read the entire thread.  cdrecord requires a CDDL
licensed build system, which is incompatible with the GPL licensed code. 
With the license incompatibilities it cannot be redistributed at all, not
even in non-free.

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Re: cdrtools vs cdrkit: flogging the dead horse

2009-01-14 Thread Jason Crain
On Wed, January 14, 2009 7:08 am, Odysseus Flappington wrote:
>> The reason it's not in non-free (i.e. multiverse, in Ubuntu), is that
>> distributing it is currently believed to be a contravention of the
>> copyright interests of the owners of the elements licensed under the
>> GPL. When we believe that something is a violation of civil law to
>
> I'm not really taking sides here since I don't have enough
> information, but out of curiosity, what do you mean when you say
> "contravention of the copyright interests of the owners of the
> elements licensed under the GPL."?
>
> Do you  mean that the actual code which has been released under the
> GPL contravenes the interests of the copyright holders? Perhaps the
> copyright to some technology re DVD structures is stopping it from
> being distributed? Similar to what libdvdcss2 provides to play
> encrypted dvds and for the same reason isn't in the repos but need to
> be installed using an awkward script?
>
> Or, do you mean that there is an issue how the GPL'd code is being
> distributed, or who owns it?
>
> How come other applications can implement the technology to burn dvds
> without legal issues, like k3b or brasero, but cdrtools can't?

It means that Schilling is a disagreeable person and does not approve of
the ways cdrecord has been modified.  He eventually changed the licensing
to prevent certain modifications, so there was a fork.

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Re: cdrtools vs cdrkit: flogging the dead horse

2009-01-14 Thread Odysseus Flappington
> The reason it's not in non-free (i.e. multiverse, in Ubuntu), is that
> distributing it is currently believed to be a contravention of the
> copyright interests of the owners of the elements licensed under the
> GPL. When we believe that something is a violation of civil law to

I'm not really taking sides here since I don't have enough
information, but out of curiosity, what do you mean when you say
"contravention of the copyright interests of the owners of the
elements licensed under the GPL."?

Do you  mean that the actual code which has been released under the
GPL contravenes the interests of the copyright holders? Perhaps the
copyright to some technology re DVD structures is stopping it from
being distributed? Similar to what libdvdcss2 provides to play
encrypted dvds and for the same reason isn't in the repos but need to
be installed using an awkward script?

Or, do you mean that there is an issue how the GPL'd code is being
distributed, or who owns it?

How come other applications can implement the technology to burn dvds
without legal issues, like k3b or brasero, but cdrtools can't?

Many thanks,
Alex

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Re: cdrtools vs cdrkit: flogging the dead horse

2009-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 02:17:16PM +0200, Davyd McColl wrote:
> My initial investigations (prior to most of my issues with wodim) into the
> cdrkit vs cdrtools debacle left me feeling that Mr Schilling was just being
> plain rude, and that the Debian guys had done a reasonable thing with the
> cdrkit fork. Subsequent to the numerous problems that I've had, and the
> resolution coming in the form of installing the latest cdrtools from schily,
> wherafter wodim on the same drive and media suddenly behaved has lead me to
> question exactly why the official cdrtools are omitted from the repository
> -- at least, from the "non-free" section, if the licensing (which I have to
> admit I haven't examined in-depth, but it probably wouldn't make a
> difference since I don't speak fluent lawyer) is an issue.

The reason it's not in non-free (i.e. multiverse, in Ubuntu), is that
distributing it is currently believed to be a contravention of the
copyright interests of the owners of the elements licensed under the
GPL. When we believe that something is a violation of civil law to
redistribute, that means that we can't put it *anywhere* in the archive,
not even multiverse. The multiverse component is for things that are
legal to redistribute, but just not under a free licence.

The Ubuntu Technical Board is already making efforts to work with Jörg
Schilling to resolve the licensing concerns, although it has been a
somewhat protracted process.

> One of the reasons I shifted from Debian to Ubuntu was the fact that Ubuntu
> made an effort to service the best interests of the userbase, even if it
> meant including non-free content (sometimes in an optional repository).

Indeed - but only when we believe that we can do so legally.

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cdrtools vs cdrkit: flogging the dead horse

2009-01-14 Thread Davyd McColl
Good day

I am quite new to the devel mailing list, so please bear with me.

Recently, I've had a lot of trouble with wodim -- failed burns, refuses to
blank a CD-RW until I have already done so with cdrecord from cdrtools. It
seems that I'm far from being alone.

My initial investigations (prior to most of my issues with wodim) into the
cdrkit vs cdrtools debacle left me feeling that Mr Schilling was just being
plain rude, and that the Debian guys had done a reasonable thing with the
cdrkit fork. Subsequent to the numerous problems that I've had, and the
resolution coming in the form of installing the latest cdrtools from schily,
wherafter wodim on the same drive and media suddenly behaved has lead me to
question exactly why the official cdrtools are omitted from the repository
-- at least, from the "non-free" section, if the licensing (which I have to
admit I haven't examined in-depth, but it probably wouldn't make a
difference since I don't speak fluent lawyer) is an issue.

One of the reasons I shifted from Debian to Ubuntu was the fact that Ubuntu
made an effort to service the best interests of the userbase, even if it
meant including non-free content (sometimes in an optional repository).
Shining examples of how the user has benefitted have come in the form of
NVIDIA/ATI binary blob redistribution (which has been an absolute blessing:
when I had an ATI card, the initial driver install was clean but susequent
installs caused all 3d functions to break -- a problem that took me at least
a month of quake-free computing to rectify) as well as the Firefox artwork.
Where possible, free alternatives are supplied (such as the nv driver and
iceweasel). I whole-heartedly support both schools of thought, though I tend
towards Linus' approach that the BEST solution is always better, even if
it's not necessarily totally free.

The long and the short of it is my question to the mailing list that if
Ubuntu already makes better, non-free alternatives available to the user
base, why isn't there an official package for cdrtools, most notably for the
people like me who have had issues with wodim? I'm in the fortunate position
of being a geek, so finding the cdrtools source, compiling and installing
weren't an issue. But Ubuntu is "Linux for human beings" -- the users who
benefit most from the great work on Ubuntu are the ones who wouldn't be able
to resolve the wodim issue. The issue of cdrkit vs cdrtools doesn't seem to
be all that different from the issue of opensource and proprietary video
drivers -- but perhaps I'm just missing something fundamental here? If I'm
not, then why are they not treated the same?

To add insult to injury, because I can't replicate the problem easily, I
can't even supply more debugging information for the trouble ticket that I
registered (as yet, though I will if I ever do get to replicate the
problem).

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