Re: anti-tarball clause and GPL

2019-07-24 Thread Jeff Licquia
On 7/23/19 6:49 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > In the light of the currently discussed GR proposal, I wonder if the > following license clause would be considered DFSG-free and GPL-compatible: > > ## > I do not consider a flat tarball to be a preferred form for modification. > Thus, l

Re: Debian Helping Scammer Websites to Cheat its Readers?

2019-06-11 Thread Jeff Licquia
On 6/11/19 9:57 PM, Liji Thomas wrote: > visit this URL - https://blends.debian.org/junior/tasks/programming  > > there is an url - http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/shoes/ > > which redirects to a scammer's blog that promotes iCloud Unlock Service > and Steal money. > > These are the scammers  >

Re: Status Debian Etch and LSB 3.1

2007-11-01 Thread Jeff Licquia
Fernando Ike de Oliveira wrote: Ok. The first step would be to test again? I can do it and report debian-lsb, right? Yup, that would be a start. Is the process for LSB Certification is complex? My employer is very interested in to help. It's much better than it used to be. Here's a

Re: Status Debian Etch and LSB 3.1

2007-10-31 Thread Jeff Licquia
Fernando Ike de Oliveira wrote: Hi Folks, I looked LSB Distribution Status of the LSB page[1] and there is written that the Debian Etch is as planned to LSB 3.1, but I remember that the Etch was launched[2] as compatible with LSB 3.1. Change status to "certified" is easy? And as I can

Re: LSB 3.1 status for etch

2006-10-20 Thread Jeff Licquia
I have more news on the LSB test regressions I reported on earlier. On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 18:22 -0400, Jeff Licquia wrote: > The two tests are: > > /tset/LSB.os/mfiles/msync_P/T.msync_P 7 FAIL As far as I can tell, the test is correct. The test does an mmap() of three pages from a l

Re: LSB 3.1 status for etch

2006-10-15 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 23:16 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > Jeff, please continue with your tests. Unfortunately, I must report some bad news: etch has regressed. I've tested powerpc and i386. I apologize for the delay, but initially I had thought the regression was specific to powerpc, as I had

Re: LSB 3.1 status for etch

2006-10-06 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 11:00 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Is etch now LSB compliant? Is it time to update policy to specify LSB > 3.1 instead of 1.3? I won't comment on the policy decision except to say that I'd love to see that happen. As for LSB compliance, etch i386 and amd64, at least,

Results for s390 (was Re: LSB 3.1 status for etch)

2006-08-09 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 10:50 -0400, Jeff Licquia wrote: > Anyone willing to run the tests themselves can contact me for > assistance. Or, if you're willing to give me root access on your > machine to run the tests for you, please contact me. And I have been contacted; thanks to al

Re: LSB 3.1 status for etch

2006-08-07 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 22:07 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > How about the init-scripts? Does LSB say anything about them, or is that > a rather optional component? Yes, I had forgotten those; there were conventions in 1.3, but they have changed slightly since then. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: LSB 3.1 status for etch

2006-08-03 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 11:21 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I guess now is the time to fix cpio and update policy, then. :) > > Is there a BTS report describing the problem with cpio? I am not sure > what to look for in > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=cpio>. There is now.

Re: LSB 3.1 status for etch

2006-08-01 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 16:02 -0400, Jeff Licquia wrote: > The test results below were run on etch as of July 16. Something I forgot to point out: these results were run on i386. While I don't expect results to be much different for other architectures, it would be helpful to run the tests

Re: LSB 3.1 status for etch

2006-08-01 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 11:53 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Jeff Licquia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060731 22:18]: > > These failures are common to all distributions using X.org 7. Several > > symbols have moved from one library to another. > > Would that failure also appear wi

Re: LSB 3.1 status for etch

2006-08-01 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 11:21 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Jeff Licquia] > > Most of the current tests pass. Of those that don't, most are > > recognized deficiencies. In sum, there are two potential issues > > with Debian and the LSB: a possible bug in cpio,

LSB 3.1 status for etch

2006-07-31 Thread Jeff Licquia
First of all, I apologize for the lateness of my report. I had intended to evaluate some of the results I had found, but did not find time to do so. I have seen two questions asked about the LSB and Debian. First: - Policy currently references LSB 1.3, while 3.1 is the current version. What a

Re: LSB status?

2006-06-07 Thread Jeff Licquia
where sarge falls short (and if the same applies for etch)? > > This is probably also a good opportunity to see what the status is > of LSB support. I'm BCCing Jeff Licquia who according to comments > of Matt Taggart by IRC might be able to give a status overview. Sarge has fo

Re: Delegation for trademark negotiatons with the DCCA

2005-09-29 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 02:31 -0700, Matt Taggart wrote: > Steve Langasek writes... > > It's ultimately Joey's call, but I think it would be far preferable to > > try to fix these lapses in the core libs instead of shipping two > > copies of libc and libpam with sarge r1. > > Well fixing the core wo

Re: Delegation for trademark negotiatons with the DCCA

2005-09-29 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 15:21 -0700, Matt Taggart wrote: > I propose that our etch goal be LSB 3.x. There are still some issues to fix > but we're as close to implementing 3.0 as we are any other version. There's a > 3.1 in plan for later this year, it mostly bug fixes and other stuff that > shoul

Re: "Why" Debian Core Consortium ? Why not UserLinux? Why not Debian?

2005-07-28 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 14:54 +, Andre Felipe Machado wrote: > Please, explain these issues. The short explanation, I think, is that people often have different ideas. At DebConf, it was announced that there are somewhere around 130 different distros based on Debian. Do you think that bringing

Re: General Resolution: Removing non-free

2000-06-12 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 12:44:00AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > > tension between them. To many of us - indeed, a majority by my count > > Let us not try to decieve. Where did you get 'your count' > and

Re: General Resolution: Removing non-free

2000-06-10 Thread Jeff Licquia
[sent to -project instead of -devel] On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 03:15:50PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: > ** On Jun 10, Jeff Licquia scribbled: > > *I* am not ready to make any guarantees. Most of that isn't software > > I use. > That you don't use those packages d

Re: General Resolution: Removing non-free

2000-06-10 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 12:54:34AM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: > No, it isn't. I see that *right now* (and *right now* is when you created > your GR) there is no morally honest way to take the software from our users. This is not at all clear. After all, the entire argument for removing non-fr

Re: Formal CFV: General Resolution to Abolish Non-Free

2000-06-09 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 10:53:26AM -0700, Craig Brozefsky wrote: > I see the issue of pool integration as having the following sticking > points: Again at the expense of "tooting my own horn", may I humbly suggest, once again, the proposal I made in debian-devel a short while ago concerning an ap