Re: First call for votes for the GFDL position statement

2006-02-27 Thread Anton Zinoviev
sure that we are not pushing Debian onto the slippery path that makes Debian divorce the free software community by rejecting many licenses (besides GFDL) that the free software community has always and will always accept as free licenses. Anton Zinoviev [1] The following is my proposal: http

Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?

2006-02-14 Thread Anton Zinoviev
to read, to adapt, to distribute and to improve. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GFDL GR, vote please!

2006-02-14 Thread Anton Zinoviev
for curiosity). Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?

2006-02-14 Thread Anton Zinoviev
the document. In our case there is no intention. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DFSG4 and combined works

2006-02-12 Thread Anton Zinoviev
in the copyright notice what exactly is the document. (Optionaly you can provide the readers with table of contents.) (And then, of course, you would not be allowed to just give the card away, without the rest of the booklet.) Yes. Anton Zinoviev P.S. I don't want to sent a message whose entire contents

Re: GFDL GR, vote please!

2006-02-11 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 03:20:36PM -0700, Hubert Chan wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:43:30 +0200, Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The interpretation that I hold is the following: The license must give us permissions to modify the work in order to adapt it to various needs

Re: DFSG4 and combined works

2006-02-11 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 09:48:37AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you want your binary to use pieces from the manual for help strings, then your binary has to read these pieces from auxiliary file which would be (speaking in the terms of GFDL

Re: DFSG4 and combined works

2006-02-11 Thread Anton Zinoviev
not be considered combined work with that file. (There are cases when it is even desirable to use the binary without that auxiliary file, for example if you want to save disk space.) Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: GFDL GR, vote please!

2006-02-10 Thread Anton Zinoviev
requirements on how they are packaged. However this interpretation is not part of my proposal. My proposal invalidates some possible interpretations of DFSG but it doesn't state which interpretation is the correct one. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: DFSG4 and combined works

2006-02-10 Thread Anton Zinoviev
readable format, various copyright notices, etc. Docstrings. Useful! Not prohibited by other free licenses! Wow! I don't understand what you mean by docstrings. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GFDL GR, vote please!

2006-02-10 Thread Anton Zinoviev
. Of course I can have nothing against the automatic overriding the decision so if everybody thinks my proposal overrides it, I am OK with this. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GFDL GR, vote please!

2006-02-10 Thread Anton Zinoviev
modification, the document may be free. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DFSG4 and combined works

2006-02-10 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 12:52:33PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060210 11:36]: On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 01:54:27PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: It does prohibit some modifications which are useful. Geez, reference cards. Useful! You

Re: DFSG4 and combined works

2006-02-10 Thread Anton Zinoviev
into the source (for tooltips, help texts, usage examples, etc..). We certainly couldn't do that with a GFDL manual and GPL source. Yes, it is not possible to incorporate such parts directly into the source so indirect way has to be used. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: GFDL GR, vote please!

2006-02-10 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 12:33:05PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think the following is an useful test. If the license forbids some modification that is necessary in order to adapt the document to some need, then the document is non-free. Otherwise

Re: DFSG4 and combined works

2006-02-10 Thread Anton Zinoviev
them only when you want to edit the sources; it is possible to do the combining and the separation automatically). Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GFDL GR, vote please!

2006-02-10 Thread Anton Zinoviev
without this modification. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DFSG4 and combined works

2006-02-10 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:07:31AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We all know that GFDL is incompatible with GPL, but if the sorce was covered by BSD-like license there is no problem - you can satisfy the requirements of the BSD license

Re: DFSG4 and combined works

2006-02-10 Thread Anton Zinoviev
if you use dual licensing. I showed one way to achieve this in http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/02/msg00472.html The question is, is it an important thing to be able to do? I think the answer is obviously yes. Ofcourse I agree that the answer is 'yes'. Anton Zinoviev

Re: DFSG4 and combined works

2006-02-10 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:55:34AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If GDB were under BSD, you could: 1. Add docstrings to the sources of GDB in a way permissible by GFDL. In particular the invariant sections should be present

Re: GFDL GR, vote please!

2006-02-10 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 08:59:59PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 01:41:42PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: I think the following is an useful test. If the license forbids some modification that is necessary in order to adapt

Re: DFSG4 and combined works

2006-02-10 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 09:08:54PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:55:34AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If GDB were under BSD, you could: 1. Add docstrings

Re: GFDL GR, vote please!

2006-02-09 Thread Anton Zinoviev
entirely about the current DFSG. Second, my proposal doesn't revoke automatically the decision of the release team to remove the GFDL-documents from main. If my proposal wins, it is the release team who will have to change this decision Anton Zinoviev signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: DFSG4 and combined works

2006-02-09 Thread Anton Zinoviev
whenever I could why GFDL doesn't obstruct us to adapt the documents or to improve them. See for example http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/02/msg00226.html Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DFSG4 and combined works

2006-02-09 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 02:46:16PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The first notion of freedom is: the work is free if we are allowed to do whatever we want with it. The second notion of freedom is: the work is free if we are allowed to adapt

Re: DFSG4 and combined works

2006-02-09 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:47:21PM +0100, Laurent Fousse wrote: Hello, * Anton Zinoviev [Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 12:33:30AM +0200]: During the the discussions in this and the previous month it became clear there are two completely different notions of freedom among us. The first notion

Re: A clarification for my interpretation of GFDL [was: Anton's amendment]

2006-02-09 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 01:43:42AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If the project secretary decides that my proposal (for GFDL) requires 3:1 supermajority, this would mean that the project secretary decides on behalf of the whole project that our notion

Re: DFSG4 and combined works

2006-02-09 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 01:19:58PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I do not place limitations on various needs. Any modification that is not just subjective wish but serves some practical purpose is desirable. So, once more, the prohibition

Re: DFSG4 and combined works

2006-02-08 Thread Anton Zinoviev
works. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DFSG4 and combined works

2006-02-08 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:59:09AM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: GFDL explicitly permits licenses that disallow any combined works. Sorry, I wanted to say DFSG explicitly permits. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: DFSG4 and combined works

2006-02-08 Thread Anton Zinoviev
exceptions. The Debian developers have the right to determine which way Debian will go and I hope our secretary will give them this right. Whatever the developers decide, a determined Debian will be better for everyone than the current Debian with no clear policy. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

DFSG4 and combined works [was: Anton's amendment]

2006-02-07 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:16:24PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: Our discussion became too complicated and I am not sure on what we agree and on what we disagree. I will try to explain my current opinion in a separate message and if we have some disagreement we can continue from there. I

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-07 Thread Anton Zinoviev
. - Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-07 Thread Anton Zinoviev
' means 'modification that is necessary in order to solve some particular need' then it is not obvious that the document is non-free as we can see from the examples given so far [*]. Anton Zinoviev [*] http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/02/msg00226.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-07 Thread Anton Zinoviev
, of legal, commercial, philosophical, ethical or political position. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-07 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 09:58:55AM -0800, Mike Bird wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 09:42, Anton Zinoviev wrote: I think I could accidently or deliberately slip something nasty into a GFDL invariant section. For example, a manual for some application could contain a polemic on the security

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-05 Thread Anton Zinoviev
not going to use any specific interpretation of DFSG. DFSG says the license may restrict the code from being distribute in modified form if allows the distribution of patch files with the source code for the purpose of modifying the program at build time. This is all I am going to use. Anton

Re: A clarification for my interpretation of GFDL

2006-02-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
the software programs. There is no disagreement between Debian and FSF for such works, at least not yet. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 01:10:56PM +0100, Frank Kьster wrote: So which is your interpretation, exactly? It is described in my message entitled A clarification for my interpretation of DFSG. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
of DFSG. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 01:16:55PM +0100, Frank Kuster wrote: Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As it has been discussed here, having the Manifesto attached as invariant is not only non-free, but also quite problematic when you are trying to produce a derivative work

Re: A clarification for my interpretation of GFDL [was: Anton's amendment]

2006-02-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
only to documents that are derivatives of the initial document. This is much easier to keep requirement and thats why FSF considers it acceptable for the GNU project. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A clarification for my interpretation of GFDL

2006-02-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 01:23:18PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In order to make reasonably evident that this is not just my interpretation but also interpretation that is shared by many other Debian developers I decided to ask Richard Stallman

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 07:58:44AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 12:39:52 +0200, Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The interpretation I proposed is not a novel and unconventional. It is not novel because it represents notion for free software that is older

Re: A clarification for my interpretation of GFDL

2006-02-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
non-free license? Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
make for a contradiction. What contradiction? At the very least, it would confuse a large set of readers. It is not difficult to make the readers aware of the proper meaning of DFSG3. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
to the public. Freedom 3 says nothing about your needs. What I wrote was the following: if your modifications solve some real need, not just your whims, then your modifications are usefull and freedom 3 gives you the right to distribute them. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
have to. There is nothing in DFSG that can make GFDL a non-free license. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: {SPAM} Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
that you don't have steady notion for free software. Nevertheless you are trying to impose on Debian your _current_ notion for free software. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 11:22:29AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 01:36:09PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Can you please explain then where the DFSG contains any statement of limitation on the concept

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 03:03:13PM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Anton Zinoviev wrote: The text of my proposal clearly states that it is not a proposal to modify the DFSG. It is not even a proposal to interpret the existing DFSG. It makes some of the existing interpretations of DFSG

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
the source of the combined work (unless the combined work is merely aggregation of independent derivatives of both works). Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
that they are obstructing the users to really excercise the rights they have acorging to GFDL. Such a document would be non-free. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:59:54AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian acknowledges as free some licenses that require that the source of all derived works is distributed in the form original_source+patch. If you have two works covered

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 02:01:18PM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: original_source+patch. If you have two works covered by such license then there is no permissible way to distribute the source of the combined work (unless the combined work

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 12:28:08PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are not allowed to distribute a patch against work A which turs it into a patch against work B. You are not allowed to do this because this patch would be based both on works

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
the distribution of patch files with the source code for the purpose of modifying the program at build time. So the license may require the distribution as original_source+patch_file. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 01:07:46PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However now I see that I missed another more obvious problem. You have to distribute the combined work in the form original_B+ +patch_file_for_B. Instead you are distributing

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 01:10:10PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't mean one specific license, but the requirement of DFSG: The license may restrict source-code from being distributed in modified form _only_ if the license allows

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 03:18:00PM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From DFSG: The license may restrict source-code from being distributed in modified form _only_ if the license allows the distribution of patch files with the source code

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 01:38:24PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any patch file for A is a work based on A. The copyright law forbids the independent distribution of such works unless the license of A explicitly permits it. I don't know of any

Re: A clarification for my interpretation of GFDL

2006-02-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
that they are obstructing the users to really excercise the rights they have acorging to GFDL. Such a document would be non-free. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: {SPAM} Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 02:59:51PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Sex, 2006-02-03 às 11:43 +0200, Anton Zinoviev escreveu: If GPL didn't contain the clause we are discussing then you would say that a license with such clause is non-free. I still don't know why you think this GPL clause has

Re: A clarification for my interpretation of GFDL

2006-02-03 Thread Anton Zinoviev
copies. This is obstruction of the right to make printed copies. Anton Zinoviev [*] http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/02/msg00224.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-02 Thread Anton Zinoviev
first post in this thread. I received confirmation and clarification from Stallman that I will report in separate message. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-02 Thread Anton Zinoviev
. I'd say that your interpretation is more unconventional than mine. So far there is absolutely _no_ decision taken by Debian project that invalidates my interpretation. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-02 Thread Anton Zinoviev
that your interpretation is the only one possible -- it is not. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-02 Thread Anton Zinoviev
doesn't contain any hints about such exceptions. Anton Zinoviev P.S. I mean the second interpretation from my first post in this thread. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-02 Thread Anton Zinoviev
proposal clearly states that it is not a proposal to modify the DFSG. It is not even a proposal to interpret the existing DFSG. It makes some of the existing interpretations of DFSG invalid but it doesn't suggest which interpretation is the right. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-02 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 03:32:00PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 19:22:10 +0200, Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If you wish to extend the list of exceptions, that is fine. But that does mean the DFSG must be clarified to add to the list. I don't belive

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-02 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 06:32:50PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Qua, 2006-02-01 às 23:28 +0200, Anton Zinoviev escreveu: On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 03:11:25PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: Ok, but by being invariant they are turning the documentation into non-free documentation. As you

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-02 Thread Anton Zinoviev
are inconvenience at most. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-02 Thread Anton Zinoviev
modifications would render GPL and some other free licenses to be non-free. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-02 Thread Anton Zinoviev
, which is bad. This would mean that Debian developers decided that DFSG do not require clarification. Notice BTW, that the interpretation of DFSG that I proposed is not the only one possible interpretation of DFSG that makes my proposal about GFDL consistent with DFSG. Anton Zinoviev

A clarification for my interpretation of GFDL [was: Anton's amendment]

2006-02-02 Thread Anton Zinoviev
acknowledge that with respect to the so called non-functional works the notion of Debian project for freeness is clearly different to the notion of FSF. However here we are talking about GFDL which is a license that applies to functional works only. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-01 Thread Anton Zinoviev
I can say that there are developers who accept them. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-01 Thread Anton Zinoviev
foo to bar or baz then this license permits at least two different modifications. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-01 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 02:38:30PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Qua, 2006-02-01 às 11:53 +0200, Anton Zinoviev escreveu: Unfortunately DFSG are not unambiguous and obviously the people understand them in various ways. Well, the text in DFSG3 may be not well tight. But I think we should

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-01 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 07:41:45PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 08:38:25PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 10:20:31AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: I have not yet seen such an interpretation of this sort, in which explanation and analysis

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-01 Thread Anton Zinoviev
that. The point is that DFSG allow many interpretations and the Debian developers have to decide which one is the correct one. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-01 Thread Anton Zinoviev
to minimize the distribution cost and I hardly see how such a rule fits in the context of DFSG. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-01 Thread Anton Zinoviev
is necessary for the proposed amendment. The 3:1 requirement would be necessary only if you can prove that we insist on modifiability of all parts. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-01 Thread Anton Zinoviev
permission to modify the work in order to adapt it for various tasks and to improve it. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-01 Thread Anton Zinoviev
and non-free acording to DFSG (because these essays are not modifiable). I have no problems with that. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-01 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 03:40:32PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: On 2/1/06, Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This interpretation is not ad-hoc thing and I strongly belive that it represents not only my view but also the view of FSF. I asked Richard Stallman for confirmation

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-01 Thread Anton Zinoviev
of DFSG3 is the same as yours. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The invariant sections are not forbidden by DFSG

2006-01-31 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:50:46AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 03:41:03PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 09:54:40AM +0100, Frank Kuster wrote: Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is not inconvenient to distribute auctex_11.html

Re: The invariant sections are not forbidden by DFSG

2006-01-31 Thread Anton Zinoviev
combine your GFDL sources and as a result all invariant sections will be grouped in one place. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The invariant sections are not forbidden by DFSG

2006-01-31 Thread Anton Zinoviev
as this doesn't obstruct the user's reading. It is probably illegal to print the license with a small font. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The invariant sections are not forbidden by DFSG

2006-01-31 Thread Anton Zinoviev
. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The invariant sections are not forbidden by DFSG

2006-01-31 Thread Anton Zinoviev
that there's no way out. In the other case, the developers deliberately chose to make the text non-distributable in this country. OK. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-30 Thread Anton Zinoviev
a new secondary section (Craig Sanders). BTW, I couldn't find the source of the quotation of Craig Sanders. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DFSG, GFDL, and position statementsd

2006-01-30 Thread Anton Zinoviev
meets the DFSG, and which passes by a slim majority, would effectively repeal the DFSG. In this case the Foundation Documents effectively invalidate any part of the resolution that contradicts with them. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Anton Zinoviev
there exists no act I can control. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Anton Zinoviev
that. The responce by Stallman was You can state that as more than just your belief. It's a fact. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Anton Zinoviev
-year requirement. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The invariant sections are not forbidden by DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Anton Zinoviev
). However you see that my conclusion is not based only on DFSG. It can not be based only on DFSG because DFSG say nothing about what modifications must be allowed by the license. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Anton Zinoviev
if the copy I gave to you was protected in such a way that you could read it today but not tomorow. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:39:41AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: On Sunday 22 January 2006 16:45, Anton Zinoviev wrote: In fact, the license says only this: You may not use technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or further copying of the copies you make

Re: The invariant sections are not forbidden by DFSG

2006-01-24 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 07:28:18AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Anton Zinoviev wrote: Derived Works The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software. Notice

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