On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 06:07:19PM +1300, Nick Phillips wrote:
> Damn. Still being misuderstood. The intention of that paragraph was not
> to allow arbitrary restrictions, but rather to indicate that perhaps we
> do believe that *some* (as yet unspecified, but soon to be specified)
> restrictions a
Josh Triplett wrote:
> I agree that this proposition is not specific enough about the types of
> conditions that we consider acceptable. I would propose the following
> addition to the above text, which I believe specifies a set of
> acceptable conditions that many on -legal agree with:
>
> """
>
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 05:35:27PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> >>Debian accepts that it may in certain circumstances be desirable
> >>(or at least acceptable) for software licenses to limit certain
> >>freedoms in order better to protect Free Software as a whole. A
> >>current ex
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 02:57:21AM +, MJ Ray wrote:
> Start with something uncontroversial and then build to:
>
> [...]
> > > In the light of the threat that software patents pose to Free
> > > Software, we believe that it is likewise acceptable for software
> > > licenses to plac
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Your messages suggested that you'd review "after a few months"
> > mainly to see who is summarising, so now seems like a good
> > opportunity. Do you have other comments about whether this turned
> > out like you imagined?
>
> Sorry for the delay in responding. I thin
Nick proposed:
> > Debian accepts that it may in certain circumstances be desirable
> > (or at least acceptable) for software licenses to limit certain
> > freedoms in order better to protect Free Software as a whole.
Start with something uncontroversial and then build to:
[...]
> >
"craig" wrote:
> > >(b) This prevents the documents from being adapted for another
> > >purpose (suchas documenting ways of funding free software).
> regardless of how admirable a trait this is, it is not a requirement of the
> DFSG, and never has been. [...]
Has craig just walked off the map by a
Hi debian-project,
It is a Brazilian user asking for some information
about Debian, I'm pointing him to Debian website and also
to Brazilian Debian User Groups and maillists.
Suprema Informática Ltda wrote:
:: BOA NOITE
:: SOU LEANDRO, SOU USUARIO DE LINUX, SEMPRE USEI AS
:: DISTRIBUIÇÕES D
Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 08:42:07PM +1300, Nick Phillips wrote:
>>On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 10:19:39PM +, MJ Ray wrote:
>>>Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>Do you really want to argue that software under licences which try to
>
Leo Verhoeff wrote:
> Aren't there fully free alternatives available that could be pre-configured?
In some cases, maybe. Unfortunately, there is sometimes resistance
to making the default a free competitor when the original was non-free,
because there is often a lag before it meets and exceeds the
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:29:51PM +0100, Leo Verhoeff wrote:
> Thanks for the reply which makes sense and the quest for 100% freedom is
> indeed one of the attractions of Debian
> Aren't there fully free alternatives available that could be pre-configured?
mplayer -> xine (totem is a GNOME front
Thanks for the reply which makes sense and the quest for 100% freedom is
indeed one of the attractions of Debian
Aren't there fully free alternatives available that could be pre-configured?
> [resend to you personally, in case you are not subscribed to the list]
>
> On 25-01-2005 21:45, [EMAIL
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On 25-01-2005 21:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm interested in Debian since a long time and I'd rather stick to the
> original. What stops me from doing so and why I always end-up with other
> distros - like Mepis - is the fact that installing jav
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DISTRIBUIÇÕES DA RED HAT, AGORA MIGREI PARA FEDORA, MAS GOSTARIA DE SABER
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I'm interested in Debian since a long time and I'd rather stick to the
original. What stops me from doing so and why I always end-up with other
distros - like Mepis - is the fact that installing java, flashplayer and in
video players like mplayer is a too frustrating matter for the average user.
* Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-07-19 15:10]:
> > Last time I suggested that -legal should engage in more active
> > arbitration with upstream
>
> Where precisely did you make this suggestion?
I had the discussion about the OLS in mind in which I asked whether
anyone had tried talkin
* MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-07-14 23:52]:
> Posts from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to -legal in February 2004 about "debian-legal
> review of licenses" suggested that "anyone can volunteer to
> summarize a particular discussion, post a summary to -legal to get
> the "ok" and then send it on" and that
* Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-12-24 02:25]:
> Would you kindly let me know whether you intend to retract the above
> snarky personal attack, issued in your formal capacity as Debian
> Project Leader and grounded upon a questionable recollection of the
> facts, given that even after n
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 02:44:31PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> ti, 2005-01-25 kello 09:14 -0200, Gustavo Noronha Silva kirjoitti:
> > > It's been interesting seeing what a lot of people look like in
> > > the
> > > little headshots on planet.debian.org, and more would only be a
> > > good
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> address, Debian login name, or IRC nick. Pictures need to be submitted
> by the people in them (or approved by them) and someone probably needs
> to check the validity of the foo.
Pictures need to be submitted through a signed-gpg mail, which either
con
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On 25-01-2005 12:14, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> Moving to -project, follow up there.
>
> Em Ter, 2005-01-25 às 09:30 +, Steve Kemp escreveu:
>
>> That'd be too much, but I'd love to see a photo field in the
>> db.debian.org database, or some
ti, 2005-01-25 kello 09:14 -0200, Gustavo Noronha Silva kirjoitti:
> > It's been interesting seeing what a lot of people look like in the
> > little headshots on planet.debian.org, and more would only be a good
> > thing.
>
> Yeah, I'm totally supportive of the idea, too. Maybe we could work o
Moving to -project, follow up there.
Em Ter, 2005-01-25 Ãs 09:30 +, Steve Kemp escreveu:
> That'd be too much, but I'd love to see a photo field in the
> db.debian.org database, or some other gallery of developers.
That's been proposed before -- even adding it to the /devel/people page
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