Re: Constitutional Amendment GR: Handling assets for the project

2006-09-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I am withdrawing the older version of my GR proposal, in favour of the new version, which has been secondedd by: Don Armstrong martin f krafft Anthony Towns Adrian von Bidder Kalle Kivimaa Anibal Monsalve Salazar Steve Langasek has withdrawn his secon

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

2006-09-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 09:46:32PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 12:01:55AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > He has full control of it, in the sense that it is often binary only, and > > that > > he produces it, and not some third party (like the operating system vendor). >

Re: kernel firmwares: GR proposal

2006-09-04 Thread MJ Ray
Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Yes, I would strongly object. I am very annoyed at people who consider > some GPL'ed drivers to be contrib material because the hardware they > support stores its proprietary firmware on the system hard disk instead > of on a flash eeprom chip like some other hard

Re: Constitutional Amendment GR: Handling assets for the project

2006-09-04 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 02:44:50PM +0100, Matthew Woodcraft wrote: > Anthony Towns wrote: > >On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 04:11:02PM +0100, Matthew Woodcraft wrote: > >> Would this GR be conducted by the outgoing secretary? If the reason for > >> the disagreement is that the secretary has lost the confi