Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-09-22 Thread Steve Dobson
Mathieu On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:30:41AM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : And do you really think that every software (of your wide definition) you can have on computer is part of the Operating System? The goal of Debian is to provide an Operating System,

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-09-22 Thread Steve Dobson
Mathieu On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:38:18AM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: Steve Dobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : The Social Contract is about producing the Debian system and other works that provide a useful platform for our users. The Operating System is just part of that work. I see

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-21 Thread Steve Dobson
RMS On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 09:30:25AM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: It contains detailed mathematicly research on how the improvements were made, details which are not evident in the source and therefore reverse engineering of the documentation from just the source is not

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-09-21 Thread Steve Dobson
RMS On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 06:33:41PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: Manuals, essays, licenses, and logos *encoded as bits on a computer* are software. Defining all these thing as software is a peculiar way to use the word. I don't think that is the best way to interpret the

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-15 Thread Steve Dobson
RMS On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 07:08:25PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: To the readers of this message: if you are a Debian developer and you do, or perhaps might, support including manuals covered by the GFDL (without expecting it to change) in Debian, please write to me and tell me. (I am

Re: A possible GFDL compromise

2003-09-14 Thread Steve Dobson
Thomas On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 02:01:40PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The goal of this part of the GFDL is to force their (non-free) dogma to be distributed along with their manuals (for various reasons of their own, which are no concern of

Re: A possible GFDL compromise: a proposal

2003-09-13 Thread Steve Dobson
RMS On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 05:05:52PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: I don't really believe it. In the 1980s, formalized free software was a new concept for almost everybody. Today, there are too many free software projects for the word _not_ to get out. My experience is just

Re: US citizens uploading to non-us

2000-11-23 Thread Steve Dobson
Hi Wichert On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 04:20:27PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Sam Hartman wrote: I can't find an answer to the question on this list's archives and so I'm asking it again. It seems fairly clear to me that the answer is yes, if proper procedures are followed, but