Re: get off your ass

2008-04-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
who wrote that email (as it wasn't GPG-signed). On the other hand, I, too, might not want to GPG-sign such an unhelpful and rude email, especially if I knew it would be publicly archived ;-) best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http

Re: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads

2008-04-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
; if not, of course feel free to revert it. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
no license problem. You can say it all you want but that doesn't make it so. HTH. -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Re: how to donate free program for Debian?

2007-01-31 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:21:12 -0800, Kevin B McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: In addition to the question of possible license non-freeness raised by others, I have some impression that wavelets are a patent minefield. If this software was distributed by Debian

Re: how to donate free program for Debian?

2007-01-31 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
(sigh, forgot to finish typing a sentence) I wrote: In this particular case the patent was ruled to be overly broad, so perhaps Free software can safely use wavelet transforms now, but . but don't count on it based only on my five-minute Google research. -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: how to donate free program for Debian?

2007-01-31 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
don't know if Debian has even taken an official position about the desirability of spending project funds to license software patents for use in Free Software, although I suspect the majority of DDs would be against it ;-) -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http

Re: how to donate free program for Debian?

2007-01-30 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
enforcement issues? As a volunteer Free Software project we have neither the money nor the desire to license patents. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751

Re: something related to the soc-ctte

2007-01-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
count FYI, to the best of my knowledge Kevin Mark is currently neither a Debian developer nor in the NM queue. Hence his opinions count no more nor less than yours ;-) -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
reply in the Launchpad entry) regards, - -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment