Re: Problematic Logo in PornView?

2002-12-07 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Jan Schumacher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > to my amusement I just found out, that a picture viewer called pornview has > recently been added to the package pool. Although I can apreciate the honesty > of calling it that, I am a bit worried about the logo it displays in its > about bo

Re: query from Georg Greve of GNU about Debian's opinion of the FDL

2003-04-14 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au) wrote: > A lot of prose does the same -- it's written to persuade or to explain > or to record, rather than to entertain or amaze. Conversely, substantial > amounts of software derive its justification from aesthetics and it's > Debian's opinion that compute

Re: Suggestion to maintainers of GFDL docs

2003-04-22 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Brian T. Sniffen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The MIT/X11 license and the GPL would both work, depending on whether > you want a copyleft. The MIT license can probably be used just by > itself. To use the GPL, though, you should probably put in a section > which explains how your document can b

Re: Suggestion to maintainers of GFDL docs

2003-04-22 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Brian T. Sniffen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > iain d broadfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > * Brian T. Sniffen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> The MIT/X11 license and the GPL would both work, depending on whether > >> you want a copyleft. The MIT

Re: Suggestion to maintainers of GFDL docs

2003-04-22 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Brian T. Sniffen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > iain d broadfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> > and possibly avoid referring directly to MSWord as well - a reference to > >> > 'binary, closed file formats' would probably do the same job. > &

Re: Suggestion to maintainers of GFDL docs

2003-04-22 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Mark Rafn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, iain d broadfoot wrote: > > > but that allows MSWord docs, since i can edit them with Abiword, OOo > > etc... > > > > maybe request a plain text version alongside any other formats? or > > >

Re: VisualBoyAdvance license

2003-04-25 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Richard Braakman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > More disturbing is the file src/win32/wavwrite.cpp, which has the > GPL blurb followed by this: > > //- > // File: WavWrite.cpp > // > // Desc: Wave file support for loading

Re: Proposed: Debian's Five Freedoms for Free Works

2003-06-13 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Anton Zinoviev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 12.VI.2003 at 16:21 Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > The Free Software Foundation promulgates, and the Debian Project > > generally accepts, four essential freedoms as defining "Free > > Software". > > > > The following is an enumeration of freedoms

Re: Proposed: Debian's Five Freedoms for Free Works

2003-06-13 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Jeremy Hankins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I personally have advocated a fifth freedom: > > > > 5) The freedom to retain privacy in one's person, effects, and data, > >including, but not limited to, all Works in one's possession and > >

Re: Proposed: Debian's Five Freedoms for Free Works

2003-06-13 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Jeremy Hankins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Having to include a changelog entry describing my modifications and > (at minimum) that the original author didn't make the change is quite > a bit different from simply giving some code to a friend w/o telling > whether I even modified the code. One i

Re: SURVEY: Is the GNU FDL a DFSG-free license?

2003-08-21 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Branden Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Part 1. DFSG-freeness of the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 > > Please mark with an "X" the item that most closely approximates your > opinion. Mark only one. > > [ X ] The GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.2, as published >