Re: GUADEC report

2004-07-11 Thread David Nusinow
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 02:07:08AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Well, while you're all vigorously agreeing with each other, it would be > nice if you guys would cite actual examples of debian-legal people "beating > upstreams about the head and shoulders with ideology". I never meant to imply

Re: GUADEC report

2004-07-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Matthew Garrett wrote: > I raised two main issues at the meeting itself: > > 1) The use of copyright law in an attempt to protect trademarks. This is > potentially going to be an issue for us, as it leads to artwork that we > can't distribute in main. This is also less than ideal for upstream >

Re: project names

2004-07-11 Thread Thomas Piekarski
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 04:59:24PM -0500, Patrick L. McGillan wrote: > As you know each release of Debian has a project name. On the other > hand, reading the debian web pages does not readily reveal those names. > Suggestion, put the package release name in the same paragraph as the > descripti

Re: Debian CDs organisation

2004-07-11 Thread Christopher M. Hagar
Hi, Maybe but, for instance, some systems simply do not get installed with the X Window System or the graphical programs that run under it. Some systems do not get installed with Apache and PHP and the many modules and related software for them...and so on. There are certainly large, groups of pac

Re: A proposal for Debian

2004-07-11 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-07-11 10:20:40 +0100 Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There's most certainly always room. I only hate Debian to start something and fail miserably while there are certificates that are accepted, contain a Debian part which could be improved. As far as I can tell, LPI is bro

Re: A proposal for Debian

2004-07-11 Thread Martin Schulze
MJ Ray wrote: > Please remember that LPI is only an objective-based pyschometric > certification, so there should definitely be room for competency-based > and other educational approaches. There's most certainly always room. I only hate Debian to start something and fail miserably while there

Re: A proposal for Debian

2004-07-11 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-07-10 20:38:23 +0100 Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What about asking LPI? I did, last August, when their site still said they'd be publishing the stats "eventually" http://web.archive.org/web/20030704091353/www.lpi.org/en/faq2.html#2.16 There are some figures there now, b