Attracting new volunteers to Debian using stackoverflow.com

2009-12-22 Thread Tom Feiner
Hi, I originally posted this in -devel, but was pointed here as a better place to discuss this issue. stackoverflow.com, which is a website featuring questions and answers on a wide range of topics in computer programming, has just offered [1] free advertising for open source projects wanting to

Proposition d'échange de lien pour votre site

2009-12-22 Thread Nancy
Bonjour, Je m'appelle Nancy, webmaster de www.open-business.info http://www.open-business.info/> . Suite à une petite visite sur votre site http://www.debian.org , je souhaiterais vous inviter à notre nouveau programme d'échange de liens. Pour rappel, l'échange de lien est un procédé permettant

Re: Attracting new volunteers to Debian using stackoverflow.com

2009-12-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi (quoting almost everything on purpose) On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Tom Feiner wrote: > stackoverflow.com, which is a website featuring questions and answers on > a wide range of topics in computer programming, has just offered [1] > free advertising for open source projects wanting to advertise > rec

Re: Attracting new volunteers to Debian using stackoverflow.com

2009-12-22 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, 2009/12/22 Raphael Hertzog : >> Does anyone know a graphic designer or someone that can whip up a nice >> ad which will attract developers to debian? > > Maybe pixelgirl (Agnieszka Czajkowska) could do it (ccing her for info). https://penta.debconf.org/dc9_schedule/events/459.en.html -- Héc

Re: DEP5: Machine-readable debian/copyright (the paperwork)

2009-12-22 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, a few remarks about DEP #5: "The Expat License" is rather unknown under this name, thus I propose adding a comment like this to its description: Expat The Expat License (often referred as MIT license, see comment in *Problematic Licenses*) It's might not be obvious for a

Differentiating BSD-style licenses (was: DEP5: Machine-readable debian/copyright (the paperwork))

2009-12-22 Thread Ben Finney
Carsten Hey writes: > It's might not be obvious for all which BSD licenses are meant by "BSD" > and "FreeBSD", thus I propose appending " (3-clause BSD)" and > respectively " (2-clause BSD)" to their descriptions. That's even more ambiguous, though. It doesn't say *which* clauses; any three-clau

Re: Differentiating BSD-style licenses (was: DEP5: Machine-readable debian/copyright (the paperwork))

2009-12-22 Thread Carsten Hey
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 09:57:05AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Carsten Hey writes: > > It's might not be obvious for all which BSD licenses are meant by "BSD" > > and "FreeBSD", thus I propose appending " (3-clause BSD)" and > > respectively " (2-clause BSD)" to their descriptions. > > That's even

Re: DEP5: “ugliness ” and Format field.

2009-12-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:25:29PM +0100, Carsten Hey a écrit : > > "Format-Specification:" is needlessly long, "Format:" would be > sufficient. Dear Carsten, I suppose your suggestion echoes the previous discussion about “ugliness” of the proposal, which took place on the wiki before it became

Re: Differentiating BSD-style licenses (was: DEP5: Machine-readable debian/copyright (the paperwork))

2009-12-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 09:57:05AM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : > Carsten Hey writes: > > > It's might not be obvious for all which BSD licenses are meant by "BSD" > > and "FreeBSD", thus I propose appending " (3-clause BSD)" and > > respectively " (2-clause BSD)" to their descriptions. > > That'

Re: DEP5: “ugliness” and Format field.

2009-12-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > For the contents of the Format field, I think that more than allowing > forks, the main motivation of using URIs is to let the readers of the > Debian copyright file find the specification easily. > After the DEP is accepted, it can be moved to a more stable location, >

Re: Differentiating BSD-style licenses (was: DEP5: Machine-readable debian/copyright (the paperwork))

2009-12-22 Thread Carsten Hey
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 01:22:47PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Here are reasons why I do not think that licenses inspired by the BSD license > can be efficiently classified by counting the number of clauses. > > First, the license of the Berkeley Software Distribution ("BSD") source code > copyr

DEP-5: prior art for license short names

2009-12-22 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi all, One concern I have with the current DEP5 draft is that the set of keywords for common licenses is very NIH. Fedora, for example, has an existing list of license keywords that are widely deployed, as can be found here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Software_License_List I thi

Re: DEP-5: prior art for license short names

2009-12-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek writes: > One concern I have with the current DEP5 draft is that the set of keywords > for common licenses is very NIH. Fedora, for example, has an existing list > of license keywords that are widely deployed, as can be found here: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Soft