Amendment - Restricted-media amendments to the DFSG

2006-04-07 Thread mjr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Delete the following text from the resolution: - - it is still possible to distribute the source code and compiled - - code together on at least one machine-readable medium." and replace it with: + it is still possible to di

Re: Amendment - Restricted-media amendments to the DFSG

2006-04-07 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 07 avril 2006 à 10:26 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > Delete the following text from the resolution: > > - - it is still possible to distribute the source code and compiled > - - code together on at least one machine-readable medium." > > and replace it with: > >

Re: GR proposal - Restricted-media amendments to the DFSG

2006-04-07 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 07 avril 2006 à 00:20 +0200, Jacobo Tarrio a écrit : > > > Well, no. If the author makes that promise, we may just as well wait > > > until > > > that happens and the package is free. It's not like we've run out of > > > software to package :-) > > Now, please re-read Manoj's email an

Re: GR proposal - Restricted-media amendments to the DFSG

2006-04-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:04:35AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > After the vote of GR 2006-001, we end up with an unclear situation about > the GNU Free Documentation License. While documents using this license > are considered free provided they don't use invariant sections, the DFSG > don't co

Re: GR proposal - Restricted-media amendments to the DFSG

2006-04-07 Thread MJ Ray
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:04:35AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > At the end of DFSG #2, the following text should be added: > > "The license may restrict distribution to some kinds of media if > > it is still possible to distribute the sourc

Re: Amendment - Restricted-media amendments to the DFSG

2006-04-07 Thread MJ Ray
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This formulation is better in one sense, as it avoids licenses being too > restrictive. However it tangles the DFSG with the current media we are > distributing our packages on, and I don't like that much. It seems likely that we will have an online archive a

use of md5sum for tally sheet

2006-04-07 Thread Arthur de Jong
I'm not a cryptographer so I could be way off here. Could there be a problem with using the MD5 hash in the tally sheet? My concern is purely theoretic and I have absolutely no reason to doubt the secretary! When I submit my vote (for DPL elections) I receive a confirmation email with a moniker o