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

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 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

2003-04-23 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

2003-04-23 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 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 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 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 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
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