Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-06-27 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El martes, 26 de junio de 2007 a las 23:16:50 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli escribía: > Just nitpicking, but is our Condorcet method for running election > suitable for voting when an (ordered) set of result is expected? Isn't > it targeted at finding only one winner (if it exists)? Not a big It's

Re: Proposal: The DFSG do not require source code for data, including firmware

2006-08-23 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El miércoles, 23 de agosto de 2006 a las 14:59:37 +0100, Matthew Garrett escribía: > > No, the DFSG are applied to what's provided by Debian, not to what it's > > required by it. > The DFSG apply to "The Debian system". The social contract doesn't > define what "The Debian system" is. We could

Re: Proposal: The DFSG do not require source code for data, including firmware

2006-08-23 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El miércoles, 23 de agosto de 2006 a las 21:24:16 +1000, Anthony Towns escribía: > We choose to apply the DFSG both to the components that the Debian system > requires, and to what we use to provide debian.org services. It can be No, the DFSG are applied to what's provided by Debian, not to what

Re: Third call for votes for the debian project leader election 2006

2006-04-07 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El viernes, 7 de abril de 2006 a las 19:27:52 +0900, JC Helary escribía: > Because translators mostly don't "maintain" translations but plainly > "contribute" translations. > Ie. Translators mainly _translate_. > What do you call translation maintenance anyway ? Well, after a translation is m

Re: Fw: please help

2005-08-18 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
El Jueves, 18 de Agosto de 2005 18:47, martin f krafft escribió: > We certainly do not host any pornographic content, so someone must > be abusing our services if that's what you see. Please provide us > with links to the content so we can take appropriate action. It's an archived spam mail: ht

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-14 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Martes, 14 de Xuño de 2005 ás 11:25:14 +0100, Matthew Garrett escribía: > I think this argument is moderately persuasive. DFSG 4 allows a license > to require a name change on modification. If Debian is granted an extra > permission to keep the name the same, but that freedom is not passed on >

Re: GFDL freedoms

2005-04-15 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Venres, 15 de Abril de 2005 ás 14:07:05 +0200, Thibaut VARENE escribía: > This is where i disagree. I think we have to be "comprehensive" when > dealing with acceptation of licenses: When balancing the interests of our > users and our commitment to freedoms, we should be able to tell "what is >

Re: documentation x executable code

2005-01-05 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Mércores, 5 de Xaneiro de 2005 ás 20:09:01 +1100, Craig Sanders escribía: > i can take a GFDL document with an invariant section, add another > section which argues against, subverts, or just supplements the > invariant section, AND i can distribute the result as either a new > source t

Re: documentation x executable code

2005-01-05 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Mércores, 5 de Xaneiro de 2005 ás 19:42:46 +1100, Craig Sanders escribía: > because the DFSG explicitly allows a license to restrict modification so that > it is only permitted by patch. As long as we can distribute a modified binary. There's no way we can distribute a GFDL-licensed documen

Re: Debian Free Documentation Guidelines was: License of old GNU Emacs manual

2005-01-04 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Mércores, 5 de Xaneiro de 2005 ás 03:39:25 +1100, Anand Kumria escribía: > We wrote the Debian /Free Software/ Guidelines, there isn't anything > stopping us from creating the Debian /Free Documentation/ Guidelines. For Debian, software is everything that is stored or transmitted in digital f

Re: Debiam auch für IBM xSeries Server?

2004-08-10 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Luns, 9 de Agosto de 2004 ás 16:16:52 +0200, Marc Neuhausen escribía: > habt Ihr einen Kunden, der Euer Debian Linux auf einem intel-basierenden > IBM xSeries Server (z.B. x345) einsetzt? Diese Maschinen sind für Suse und Yes, Debian works perfectly in IBM xSeries servers. We use them here at

Re: quejas de un distribuidor que ustedes recomiendan

2004-05-04 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Martes, 4 de Maio de 2004 ás 00:28:37 +0200, Cuauhtemoc Mendez Viveros escribía: Short summary: he ordered Debian Linux from this shop, he paid, the shop did not send the box and will not answer inquiries. > El pasado 16 de abril hice la siguiente compra, en un distribuidor que > ustedes >

Bug#210879: constitution.txt: fractured developers

2003-10-01 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Martes, 30 de Setembro de 2003 ás 18:26:18 -0400, Alfie Costa escribía: > >developers using a mathematical formula. It is later compared to a > >natural number, "number of developers" > Deja vu. Could it be that you stopped reading my uninteresting > post after finishing the first paragraph? I

Bug#210879: constitution.txt: fractured developers

2003-09-28 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Domingo, 28 de Setembro de 2003 ás 15:21:46 -0400, Alfie Costa escribía: > Something is being rounded, and the resulting quantity enumerates > developers. But is 'K' the number of developers? K is only a real number which is computed from the number of developers using a mathematical formula

Bug#210879: constitution.txt: fractured developers

2003-09-26 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Venres, 26 de Setembro de 2003 ás 04:20:33 -0400, Alfie Costa escribía: > By such mathematical standards, press flubs like "Squad Helps Dog Bite > Victim", or "Red Tape Holds Up Bridge"** are perfectly correct, since "At least K other Developers" is perfectly clear even if K is fractional. L