Re: Why Debian Common Core Alliance? Why not Debian?

2005-08-23 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 8/22/05, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: [snip mostly sensible stuff] I certainly hope not, at least until you've learnt where the boundary is between speaking on behalf of yourself and speaking on behalf of Debian. The above crosses it, eg -- what makes you think Debian wants to

Re: Delegation for trademark negotiatons with the DCCA

2005-08-23 Thread Peter Vandenabeele
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 01:59:43PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 03:07:07PM +0200, Peter Vandenabeele wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 02:38:38PM +0200, Peter Vandenabeele wrote: So a naming in the sense of Debian Commercial Support Association or something along

Re: Why Debian Common Core Alliance? Why not Debian?

2005-08-23 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 11:17:28PM -0700, Michael K. Edwards wrote: [...] There's no need to hammer on the trust issues in public; I tend to think in public is the best place to hammer on trust issues; otherwise how to tell the difference between a convincing argument, or the appropriate people

Re: Delegation for trademark negotiatons with the DCCA

2005-08-23 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:28:11AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: But beyond that, yes, when there's something to report, I plan on making either -private or -project as appropriate aware of what is being done, just like any other delegate. Well, most other delegates tend to get distracted and

Re: What the DFSG really says about trademarks

2005-08-23 Thread MJ Ray
Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You appear to have raised a valid point, in that we (the bulk of the DDs in the UK [1]) are intent upon [...] Where bulk is about 7 DDs out of 70+. Not only were other UK DDs not involved, but many of them probably haven't been told of this business being

Re: Delegation for trademark negotiatons with the DCCA

2005-08-23 Thread MJ Ray
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: Well, most other delegates tend to get distracted and not do reports :) Indeed. I'd like to hear back from the FDL and CC delegates, for example. [...] The concerns here are acknowledging Debian and not being misleading, and they're shared by

Re: Delegation for trademark negotiatons with the DCCA

2005-08-23 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
quote who=Peter Vandenabeele date=Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 03:07:07PM +0200 On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 02:38:38PM +0200, Peter Vandenabeele wrote: So a naming in the sense of Debian Commercial Support Association or something along those lines would seem to make it clearer to me ... or just

Re: Delegation for trademark negotiatons with the DCCA

2005-08-23 Thread Joe Smith
Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] But beyond that, yes, when there's something to report, I plan on making either -private or -project as appropriate aware of what is being done, just like any other delegate. Please try to keep as much of it public as

Re: Delegation for trademark negotiatons with the DCCA

2005-08-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Anthony Towns wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:28:11AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: But beyond that, yes, when there's something to report, I plan on making either -private or -project as appropriate aware of what is being done, just like any other delegate. The

New Maintainers

2005-08-23 Thread Martin Michlmayr
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 21 Aug 2005. 4 applicants became maintainers. Khalid Aziz khalid I have been using Linux for almost 6 years and been a Linux kernel developer for 4 years. I have a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science and Technology from

Please delete the page: : http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2005/03/msg00044.html

2005-08-23 Thread Marina Ribeiro
Mr. Webmaster, I´d like to request that this page:: http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2005/03/msg00044.html Be deleted from your discussion list. This is a portuguese website that promotes SPAM and software piracy and it is bringing problems to many people in Brazil. I am sure that your

Fwd: Please delete the page: : http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2005/03/msg00044.html

2005-08-23 Thread martin f krafft
Redirecting to the right place. Dear list archives team: maybe you could consider a footer which tells people how to deal with offensive content? E.g. where to turn to? - Forwarded message from Marina Ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Marina Ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: Please delete the page: : http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2005/03/msg00044.html

2005-08-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Marina Ribeiro wrote: I´d like to request that this page:: http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2005/03/msg00044.html Be deleted from your discussion list. This is a portuguese website that promotes SPAM and software piracy and it is bringing problems to many people

Re: What the DFSG really says about trademarks

2005-08-23 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:03:38AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To that end, we've set up a society: http://wiki.earth.li/DebianUKSociety the primary purpose of which is to allow us to open a bank account to hold the mentioned funds. That disagrees with