Re: OSI affiliation

2012-02-17 Thread MJ Ray
Philip Hands wrote: [...] > So whatever we might think about the merits of the "Open Source" term, > it hardly seems like a step forward to render such references into > hanging links just at the point where policy makers are starting to get > the message. I agree with Phil. That is why my prefe

Re: OSI affiliation

2012-02-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 13 février 2012 à 18:40 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > Dear project members, > as you might have heard post-FOSDEM, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) > is opening up to an affiliate membership structure [1,2]. As I've > already mentioned in [3], representatives of OSI have approa

Re: OSI affiliation

2012-02-17 Thread Jose Luis Rivas
On 02/17/2012 08:39 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > This looks very good on paper, but as others have mentioned, the OSI has > taken various decisions that were in complete contradiction with the > Debian project, especially on accepting non-free licenses as “open > source”. While it would be nice to

Re: who is going to Northeast GNU/Linux fest ?

2012-02-17 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Dear Jonathan, could you share some information about the "table" -- approximate size/shape (round or regular rectangular) and either it would have some power sockets. I am starting to think how to organize it ;) Thank you in advance! ;) > We would love to have Debian at the conference and you

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Your biggest achievement during past DebConfs (aka new DebConf promoting campaign)

2012-02-17 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Joey Hess > Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Are you sure the first successful installation of Debian happened during > > DebConf3? I remember giving a talk about Skolelinux at that conference > > and how Skolelinux used d-i to automate the Debian installation. During > > the talk I ran the in

Re: OSI affiliation

2012-02-17 Thread MJ Ray
Jose Luis Rivas > Just to give context to your email, could you provide a list with the > OSI-approved licenses that you call non-free? (Maybe a link) That way > every one else knows which licenses are you talking about exactly. http://people.debian.org/~mjr/legal/fsf-osi-list-diff.txt shows the