Re: Distributing software written by hostile upstream developers

2009-09-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:42:45PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: In my opinion, the current recommendation in the developer references is enough for now: I concur. Different thing. This encourages the maintainer to think if he wants it. Now, what if the maintainer wants it (hey, some people

Re: Export Control of Debian OS

2009-09-11 Thread Fumiharu Nakayama
Dear Aoki-san, Paul-san, Thanks for your quick reply. We really appreciate your advice. We will think twice along your suggestions. Best regards, F.Nakayama FUMIHARU (HARRY) NAKAYAMA 中山 文治 TOSHIBA TEC DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEMS

Re: debian trademark tshirt

2009-09-11 Thread Andre Felipe Machado
Hello, Barbora: You can make such described fair use of the Debian Open Use Logo [0] following its license written there. The genie bottle [1] is reserved for official (formal) use. Regards. Andre Felipe Machado [0] http://www.debian.org/logos/index.en.html#open-use [1]

Re: Debian money

2009-09-11 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Steve, Even though I'm an Ubuntu blank sheep, I'm hoping to be a Debian black sheep too. So I've put together my thoughts on your money problems linked below. Conclusion: I feel like we should be thinking about automating some of the mechanisms in which money is involved and more

Re: Debian money

2009-09-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 06:19:21PM +0200, Harald Geyer wrote: Well, after the dunc-tank desaster I started to recommend to people not to donate any money to debian at all but to upstreams instead, because debian has more money than it needs and giving more money to debian only will cause DDs

Re: Debian money

2009-09-11 Thread Harald Geyer
Marc Haber mh+debian-proj...@zugschlus.de wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 06:19:21PM +0200, Harald Geyer wrote: Well, after the dunc-tank desaster I started to recommend to people not to donate any money to debian at all but to upstreams instead, because debian has more money than it needs

Re: Distributing software written by hostile upstream developers

2009-09-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Matthew Johnson wrote: On Thu Sep 10 12:53, Steve McIntyre wrote: Well, what happens if somebody wants to maintain software where there is a strong set of opinion that we don't want it? In this case, I'd like to delegate the power to the ftpmasters to say so and reject

Re: Distributing software written by hostile upstream developers

2009-09-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 03:07:47PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Matthew Johnson wrote: On Thu Sep 10 12:53, Steve McIntyre wrote: Well, what happens if somebody wants to maintain software where there is a strong set of opinion that we don't want it? In this case, I'd