Re: Proposed MBF - mentions of the word "Ubuntu"

2013-11-08 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Jonathan Dowland dixit: >On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 12:56:37PM -0500, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >> Seems as though Joey is already taking the lead on this: >> >> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/debmirror.git;a=commitdiff;h=fcd972395b0201fcde4915d282982926f0d04c56;hp=7fcdf0d225c480b386

We can not give lessons to others about trademarks (Re: Proposed MBF - mentions of the word "Ubuntu")

2013-11-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 05:35:36PM +, Ian Jackson a écrit : > It appears that Canonical have gone to war with anyone who mentions > the word "Ubuntu" in a way they don't like: > > http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/canonical-abused-trademark-law-to-target-a-site-critical-o

Re: Code of Conduct: picking up

2013-11-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op 05-11-13 16:25, Wouter Verhelst schreef: [...draft CoC...] To avoid spamming this list with one draft after another, I've put my current draft in a git repository which people can now find at http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/wouter/coc.git;a=blob;f=coc.markdown This will be updated a

Re: Proposed MBF - mentions of the word "Ubuntu"

2013-11-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Joking aside, we do occasionally have high visibility, low severity bugs in this ballpark, like #666869 (which is thankfully resolved and hopefully will be backported to a stable point release) as a result of personalisation in Ubuntu leaking back downstream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-p

Re: Proposed MBF - mentions of the word "Ubuntu"

2013-11-08 Thread Michael K. Edwards
s/Ubuntu/no-name-anymore/ On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 12:56:37PM -0500, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >> Seems as though Joey is already taking the lead on this: >> >> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/debmirror.git;a=commitdiff;h=fc

Re: Proposed MBF - mentions of the word "Ubuntu"

2013-11-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 12:56:37PM -0500, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > Seems as though Joey is already taking the lead on this: > > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/debmirror.git;a=commitdiff;h=fcd972395b0201fcde4915d282982926f0d04c56;hp=7fcdf0d225c480b386c5a1f487e68dc39b57e771 Urgh,

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-11-08 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Sunday 27 October 2013 08:54:30 Enrico Zini wrote: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 05:27:25PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Simply obfuscating the name on the list of banned users (or not posting > > any names at all, only links to the posts that led to the ban) would > > I'm in favour of not posting n

Re: Proposed MBF - mentions of the word "Ubuntu"

2013-11-08 Thread Ean Schuessler
It is hard to avoid the irony in asserting ownership of the word "ubuntu". The contrast with its native meaning, "all of us contribute to the identity of one and other", is striking. In a philosophical sense, the action approaches satire. Its an Orwellian joke on Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela.

Re: Proposed MBF - mentions of the word "Ubuntu"

2013-11-08 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 05:40:44PM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2013-11-08, Ian Jackson wrote: > > The flipside is that when we receive lawyer letters over trademarks, > > where the trademark holder is preventing us from doing something we > > consider essential for software freedom, we rename

Re: Proposed MBF - mentions of the word "Ubuntu"

2013-11-08 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2013-11-08, Ian Jackson wrote: > The flipside is that when we receive lawyer letters over trademarks, > where the trademark holder is preventing us from doing something we > consider essential for software freedom, we rename things. > > Naturally we should apply that same principle for the bene

Proposed MBF - mentions of the word "Ubuntu"

2013-11-08 Thread Ian Jackson
It appears that Canonical have gone to war with anyone who mentions the word "Ubuntu" in a way they don't like: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/canonical-abused-trademark-law-to-target-a-site-critical-of-ubuntu-privacy/ Normally we take a relaxed approach to trademarks. W

DSA Team Meeting minutes, 2013-11-08

2013-11-08 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, Minutes from DSA monthly meeting follow: Present: paravoid (Faidon Liambotis) weasel (Peter Palfrader) zumbi (Héctor Orón Martínez) zobel (Martin Zobel-Helas) - Ongoing project update o franck and carepacks (luca, zobel) - luca to call HP and clarify o SSO status (zobel