Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Henning Makholm wrote:
Scripsit Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That would, however, cover firmware and wind up sending X to
contrib. So maybe: ... iff it is stored on the local machine's file
system.
That would be my *intuitive* understanding
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 03:09:52PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
Hamish Moffatt dijo [Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 04:26:26PM +1100]:
Yet the ICQ client is not useful without a component which is not in
Debian and in fact is not freely available.
If the emulators were extended to be able to fetch
Brian Thomas Sniffen writes:
I'm not sure that makes a difference. The mark Debian is a
trademark of SPI. You'd like your software to be Free, so why not
avoid the trademarked name?
Not to put too fine a point on it or anything but...
Package: dash
Description: The Debian Almquist Shell
Scripsit Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Henning Makholm wrote:
Scripsit Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That would, however, cover firmware and wind up sending X to
contrib. So maybe: ... iff it is stored on the local machine's file
system.
That would be my *intuitive*
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 03:09:52PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
The blobs for the in-kernel drivers are not to be executed by the host
CPU itself, neither is the non-free ICQ, MSN or Yahoo servers
(although Gaim can be seen useful by itself as it works with IRC and
Jabber... Well, brain, please
The recent thread about Mozilla and trademarks on debian-legal has been
drawn to my attention. For those who don't know me, I'm Gerv, and I'm
currently the first point of contact for trademark and copyright
licensing issues at Mozilla.
I have to say that Alex's original summary of our
Hi Gerv,
I wish you a happy new year. I was just composing a mail that would get you
involved in this discussion, but apparently you came on your own ;). Fine. In
addition I added Eric (the firefox maintainer) to CC since he is not subscribed
to -legal.
Gervase Markham wrote:
I have to
Alexander Sack wrote:
I suggest that we make a standard policy that works for all and not for
debian only. Otherwise, I feel that there are problems with dfsg, since
we cannot grant the same rights to our users, that you granted us. But,
here I might be wrong and maybe others want to elaborate
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 10:20:26PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, let's say I rename the package to 'somebird' and want to produce a good
package for debian. Should I use a patched orig.tar.gz or is it ok to
distribute the source as provided by upstream (of
I'm going to reply, in some sense, to Gervase Markham's message, but it is
in more of a general vein, rather than a point by point discussion. Still
my thoughts on the same basic topics, though.
While I appreciate Mr. Markham's efforts, and in fact I don't disagree
with what I believe are his
Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
The social contract says ...but we will never make the system depend on
an item of non-free software. not but we will never make the system
depend on an item of non-free software /which we must distribute/.
In order to allow the vast majority of hardware which
Joel Aelwyn wrote:
First, having such a trademark license establishes the Mozilla project
as an arbiter of package quality for a Debian package.
Indeed. With all the caveats that you state, then yes, when it comes
down to it, it does. It has to, in order for us to claim that we're
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 11:33:21AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
Please suggest any case which you don't think this criteria adequately
covers.
The bios.
Unless, we decide that the bios we put in non-free isn't the bios we
need to boot the machine.
--
Raul
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 07:49:15PM +, Gervase Markham wrote:
Again, a fair point. Although the impact of this event is arguably less
than the same issue with a code licence. After all, if the code licensor
(e.g. UWash) goes bad on you, that's the end of the package.
Only for non-free
Scripsit Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 11:33:21AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
Please suggest any case which you don't think this criteria adequately
covers.
The bios.
Unless, we decide that the bios we put in non-free isn't the bios we
need to boot the machine.
On
Scripsit Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is DFSG 8 actually a problem here?
The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program's
being part of a Debian system. If the program is extracted from Debian
and used or distributed without Debian but otherwise within the terms
of
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 05:02:15PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
The social contract says ...but we will never make the system depend on
an item of non-free software. not but we will never make the system
depend on an item of non-free software /which we must distribute/.
We don't make the
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