Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free then I will be honored to join Stallman and the FSF in the not free section of your distro

2003-04-23 Thread Hans Reiser
Andrew Saunders wrote: On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 22:46:24 +0400 Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One could argue that if the "thief" had been unable to re-brand the code, they never would have used it. If they had to have a prominent notice advertising "We did not write this, Hans Reiser did" (o

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free then I will be honored to join Stallman and the FSF in the not free section of your distro

2003-04-23 Thread Andrew Saunders
On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 22:46:24 +0400 Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > persons like me > are concerned that vendors will strip all information about who wrote > ReiserFS out except for copyright notices that none of their users > will see, slap their brand identity onto it, and ship, depriv

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free then I will be honored to join Stallman and the FSF in the not free section of your distro

2003-04-23 Thread Hans Reiser
Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 11:00, Hans Reiser wrote: Anthony DeRobertis wrote: [...] could apparently make its changes to the documentation of a GFDL-licensed document near-proprietary by adding invariant sections and cover texts that are unconscionable to the original

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free then I will be honored to join Stallman and the FSF in the not free section of your distro

2003-04-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op wo 23-04-2003, om 17:00 schreef Hans Reiser: > Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > > > >Consider that an Evil Company, say, starting with the letter 'M', could > >apparently make its changes to the documentation of a GFDL-licensed > >document near-proprietary by adding invariant sections and cover te

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free then I will be honored to join Stallman and the FSF in the not free section of your distro

2003-04-23 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 11:00, Hans Reiser wrote: > Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > [...] could > >apparently make its changes to the documentation of a GFDL-licensed > >document near-proprietary by adding invariant sections and cover texts > >that are unconscionable to the original author. [...] (Not

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free then I will be honored to join Stallman and the FSF in the not free section of your distro

2003-04-23 Thread Hans Reiser
Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Consider that an Evil Company, say, starting with the letter 'M', could apparently make its changes to the documentation of a GFDL-licensed document near-proprietary by adding invariant sections and cover texts that are unconscionable to the original author. Something like

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free then I will be honored to join Stallman and the FSF in the not free section of your distro

2003-04-23 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 02:08, Hans Reiser wrote: > I find it unspeakably ingrateful to Stallman that some of you begrudge > him his right to express his (discomforting to some) views to all who > use his software, and to ensure that they are not removed by those suits > who are discomforted. Our

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free then I will be honored to join Stallman and the FSF in the not free section of your distro

2003-04-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 10:08:57AM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote: > I find it unspeakably ingrateful to Stallman that some of you begrudge > him his right to express his (discomforting to some) views to all who > use his software, and to ensure that they are not removed by those suits > who are disco

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free then I will be honored to join Stallman and the FSF in the not free section of your distro

2003-04-21 Thread Jarno Elonen
We are having a small debate about wheter a user has freedom to modify code of free software when it concerns where a long version of author & sponsor list is displayed. It has also been speculated that GPL v3 will have a say on this. Could elaborate what will be in it? (The following message w

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free then I will be honored to join Stallman and the FSF in the not free section of your distro

2003-04-21 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:08, Hans Reiser wrote: > I find it unspeakably ingrateful to Stallman that some of you begrudge > him his right to express his (discomforting to some) views to all who > use his software, and to ensure that they are not removed by those suits > who are discomforted. > > As fa

If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free then I will be honored to join Stallman and the FSF in the not free section of your distro

2003-04-21 Thread Hans Reiser
I find it unspeakably ingrateful to Stallman that some of you begrudge him his right to express his (discomforting to some) views to all who use his software, and to ensure that they are not removed by those suits who are discomforted. As far as I am concerned, I have no desire to have ReiserFS