Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-19 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
I am not subscribed to debian-legal Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:01:05PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > I'm saying that a package built with ecc (or icc or whatever) is not > the same package that you'll get if you build the same so

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-19 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
be harder to track down, but not from a ``it is a different package'' because of using icc instead of gcc. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as apparently my cats have learned how to type. spiders.html

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-18 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
I am not subscribed to debian-legal. Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 06:28:01PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > Note the exact words (I am assuming that Glenn copied them verbatim): > > the package in main must be buildable with tools in main >

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-18 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
hich neatly sidesteps the entire ``intent of buildable with tools in main'' issue entirely. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as apparently my cats have learned how to type. spiders.html

Re: committee for FSF-Debian discussion

2003-10-01 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Branden Robinson wrote: > > I don't have any problems with Don personally, but I personally would > rather we had a full-fledged Debian Developer as our other delegate to > this committee. i tried to volunteer[1] but i have not seen that message hit the list yet. [1] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Inconsistencies in our approach

2003-08-08 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
John Goerzen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:16:39AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Sergey V. Spiridonov wrote: > > > > >Documentation and some other kinds of data can be used without computer. > > >Documentation can be printed and sold as books. One does not need a > > >computer to read

Re: Inconsistencies in our approach

2003-08-03 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Nick Phillips wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 09:50:13PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: %< snip of definitions >% > Pretty good. I would have tried to phrase it slightly differently, but you > have hit the nail on the head. > > If it's represented essentially as

Re: Inconsistencies in our approach

2003-08-02 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:38:43 -0700, John H Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > > as a mostly passive observer at this point, the only data we are > > missing is a clear working definition to separate out Software, > > Data,

Re: Inconsistencies in our approach

2003-07-31 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
MJ Ray wrote: > > Does anyone have *NEW DATA* to bring to the discussion? as a mostly passive observer at this point, the only data we are missing is a clear working definition to separate out Software, Data, and Documentation. once we do that to our own satisfaction, then we can get on with def