Re: [AMENDMENT]: Release Etch now, with source-less but legal and freely licensed firmware

2006-09-29 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Debian Etch, > | as long as we are legally allowed to do so, and the firmware is > | distributed upstream under a license that complies with the DFSG.=20 > ` I second this proposal. Daniel Ruoso signature.asc Description: Esta é uma parte de mensagem assinada digitalmente

Re: {SPAM} Counter-proposal: reaffirm support for the elected DPL

2006-09-21 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Qui, 2006-09-21 às 10:08 +0200, Loïc Minier escreveu: > There's always None of the above, but I am pissed enough by the > attitude of some developers that I want to reaffirm support for the > elected DPL whatever he does to suppose Debian outside of the project. > > (The text of the proposal i

Re: kernel firmwares: GR proposal

2006-08-31 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Qui, 2006-08-31 às 09:19 +0100, Daniel Ruoso escreveu: > Qua, 2006-08-30 às 23:06 +0200, Frederik Schueler escreveu: > > So, we propose this GR: > > > > 1. We affirm that our Priorities are our users and the free software > > community (Social Contract #4); > >

Re: kernel firmwares: GR proposal

2006-08-31 Thread Daniel Ruoso
s part of Debian Etch, without further conditions. Seconded. Daniel Ruoso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Proposal: Apologize for releasing etch with sourceless/non-free firmware

2006-08-25 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Hi, As I understand Debian's view on Free Software did not change, and as the firmware split is, indeed, an unsolved question, I think a more honest position would be to accept that we couldn't deal with the firmware issue in the timeframe for etch. As the question itself seems quite immature (in

Re: {SPAM} Question about GFDL licensed works

2006-02-13 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Dom, 2006-02-12 às 09:22 -0600, Manoj Srivastava escreveu: > If people who sponsored the second amendment can explain to me > why something that prevents me from using SELinux when all I am doing > is unpack and copy make sources is deemed free, I would be, err, > grateful. Hmmm... I

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-13 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qui, 2006-02-09 às 21:18 -0500, Christopher Martin escreveu: > To impose the 3:1 requirement requires, beforehand, a judgment concerning > the DFSG. And so to remove it... If it's a judgement for one side, it's a judgement for the other... > Since no one has found a Secretarial basis for that

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qui, 2006-02-02 às 02:11 +0200, Yavor Doganov escreveu: > | Everything must be modifiable I'm still not convinced GPL prevents that. You're still allowed to rephrase the copyright,no-warrant,where-is-the-license notices and to present it in a way that fits to your needs. It doesn't force you to

Re: {SPAM} Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Daniel Ruoso
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 something to do with invariant sections... GPL only says: "to pri

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-03 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Sex, 2006-02-03 às 11:42 +0200, Anton Zinoviev escreveu: > 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. It's quite hard to read that freedom 3 is mor

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-02 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qui, 2006-02-02 às 18:49 +, Stephen Gran escreveu: > This one time, at band camp, Daniel Ruoso said: > > > So, if I were to write a program, which at startup displays the > > > entiretity of the GNU Manifesto, and wrote a license, which would be > > > GPL with

Re: {SPAM} Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-02 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qui, 2006-02-02 às 01:09 +0200, Kalle Kivimaa escreveu: > Yavor Doganov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > As explained on http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-howto.html, the > > Invariant sections serve a special purpose, which is the case of the > > GNU Manifesto. Many users, including myself, consi

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-02 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qui, 2006-02-02 às 12:44 +0200, Anton Zinoviev escreveu: > On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 06:32:50PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > > I must remeber that, in this case, you're not letting the user judge if > > something fits or not to his needs. > > This breaks freedom 1[1],

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-01 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qua, 2006-02-01 às 23:33 +0200, Anton Zinoviev escreveu: > On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 03:28:30PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > > This was what I tried to show you, not the opposite. My interpretation > > of DFSG3 is guided by freedom 1, which says "adapt it to your needs"

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-01 Thread Daniel Ruoso
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 say, people won't be able to change it, > > therefore, it's a

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-01 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qua, 2006-02-01 às 23:00 +0200, Yavor Doganov escreveu: > Since you and the Secretary (probably others as well) are interpeting > the DFSG in a different way, perhaps it is a good idea to clarify that > particular sentence, but it is not an obstacle for the current GR. Well, it has been argued

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-01 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qua, 2006-02-01 às 11:13 -0700, Wesley J. Landaker escreveu: > On Wednesday 01 February 2006 09:41, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > "The license must permit modifications". No if, and, or > > buts. So no, I do not think that is actually true. > Sure, it says it must permit modifications, bu

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-01 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qua, 2006-02-01 às 20:12 +0200, Anton Zinoviev escreveu: > If the invariant sections are unreasonably long then I'd agree the > document is non-free. However some developers object even short > invariant sections. It has nothing to do with the size of the invariant section (and indeed, GFDL do

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-01 Thread Daniel Ruoso
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 look at its direct reference, which can be said as the most sane in

Re: {SPAM} Re: The invariant sections are not forbidden by DFSG

2006-01-31 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Ter, 2006-01-31 às 16:53 +0200, Anton Zinoviev escreveu: > invariant sections with offensive material give us a similar example > -- documents that contain such invariant section would also be > non-free. The problem is using one thing as media for unrelated stuff. As most people would just rem

How many GRs?

2006-01-25 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qua, 2006-01-25 às 10:35 +0200, Fabian Fagerholm escreveu: > Some people want to have one big GR with all the options on it. > Other people (like me) think it's better to have two separate GRs: > * one to decide if GNU FDL is free or not and > * one to decide how we should explain ou

Re: Amendment: GFDL is compatible with DFSG

2006-01-23 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Seg, 2006-01-23 às 10:28 +0100, Wouter Verhelst escreveu: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 10:41:25AM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > If you do not have any access to my encrypted or "chmod -r" copy, then > > I am not controllyng your reading or further copying > Really. If you maintain a copy of a GF

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-01-20 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qui, 2006-01-19 às 20:30 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG escreveu: > Christopher Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It was my understanding that this is what the amendment was attempting to > > do > > - to establish a position statement stating that > > GFDL-minus-invariant-sections was proble

Re: Trying to reach consensus - Yet Another Alternate Proposal to Declassification of debian-private

2005-12-09 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Sex, 2005-12-09 às 00:49 +1000, Anthony Towns escreveu: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 11:24:52AM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > > There's a lot of personal information inside debian-private, > There is? I got 36 of 494 messages (7%) for the month I did, with an > additional 55 o

Re: {SPAM} Re: Trying to reach consensus - Yet Another Alternate Proposal to Declassification of debian-private

2005-12-08 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qui, 2005-12-08 às 08:07 +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane escreveu: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:39:15AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 02:47:07PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > >> The first type of publication could embrace the entire content of > &

Re: Trying to reach consensus - Yet Another Alternate Proposal to Declassification of debian-private

2005-12-08 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qui, 2005-12-08 às 01:39 +0100, Wouter Verhelst escreveu: > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 02:47:07PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > > I hope this is closer to a consensus... > Afraid not. This proposal basically creates a second class of people -- > those who we want to sign NDA'

Re: {SPAM} Re: Trying to reach consensus - Yet Another Alternate Proposal to Declassification of debian-private

2005-12-08 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qui, 2005-12-08 às 00:08 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin escreveu: > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 02:47:07PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > > The first type of publication could embrace the entire content of > > debian-private, but restrictions will be applied for those who want to > >

Trying to reach consensus - Yet Another Alternate Proposal to Declassification of debian-private

2005-12-07 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Hi, I'll try to move forward in the direction of a more consensual proposal about the declassification. In this discussion, two points were made clear to me: 1) It would be really nice to have the d-p archives available to those who want to understand better how debian works, and from this pers

Re: Proposal for *Real* Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-02 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Sex, 2005-12-02 às 21:16 +0100, Florian Weimer escreveu: > * Daniel Ruoso: > > In accordance with principles of openness and transparency, Debian > > will seek to declassify and publish posts of historical or ongoing > > significance made to the Debian Private Mailin

Proposal for *Real* Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Daniel Ruoso
As dicussion follows, I decided to formalize a proposal for a real declassification of the content on -private. As I said before, if we're going to choose which material is made public, we can't call it "declassification". The main points are: 1) Everything except financial information about oth

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qui, 2005-12-01 às 08:32 -0600, Manoj Srivastava escreveu: > a) The post contained sensitive material. > In this case, if a reasonable case has been made for the > material being sensitive, and one that the declassification > teams accepted, then the material should be

Re: GR Proposal 3: Declassification of -private - Future content only

2005-11-19 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Sáb, 2005-11-19 às 12:29 +1000, Anthony Towns escreveu: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:41:34AM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > > -- > > Thus, I propose that the Debian project resolve that the process > > defined in GR Proposal 2 will be applied *only* for the future content

GR Proposal 3: Declassification of -private - Future content only

2005-11-18 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Just to formalize what I've already said... I think this should be considered for future -private content even if the GR Proposal 2 (which I second) is rejected, considering one argument against it is that people didn't expect to have it's private posts revealed. -- Thus, I propose that the Debi

Re: GR Proposal 2: Declassification of -private

2005-11-18 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Sex, 2005-11-18 às 16:09 +1000, Anthony Towns escreveu: > Thus, I propose that the Debian project resolve that: > > --- > In accordance with principles of openness and transparency, Debian will > seek to declassify and publish posts of historical or ongoing significance > made to the Debian Pri

Re: GR Proposal 2: Declassification of -private

2005-11-18 Thread Daniel Ruoso
w (Manoj's changes, no comment on original) >Daniel Ruoso (original preferred over Manoj's changes) > Five's enough to second a proposal, but only if they all second the same > one :) I change my position as it seems that's needed to take it to the vote. I cons

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-16 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Ter, 2005-11-15 às 12:08 +1000, Anthony Towns escreveu: > I think the easiest way to do that is to adopt an approach similar to that > of governments that deal with classified documents; that is by setting a > specific time after which -private posts will be required to be considered > for decla

Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2005 Results

2005-04-11 Thread Daniel Ruoso
For those who are tired of pressing page up/page down to understand the listing... a s/Option \d/$candidates[$1]/ge is helpfull... Branden Robinson defeats Mathew Garrett by ( 248 - 220) = 28 votes. Anthony Towns defeats Mathew Garrett by ( 244 - 221) = 23 votes. Mathew Garrett defeats Angus

Re: debian-women obscurity, was: Clarification about krooger's platform

2005-03-09 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qua, 2005-03-09 às 17:07, Amaya escreveu: > When I first became a developer, I found debian-devel frightening, > hostile and very intimidating, I must admit this was not so because of > gender issues. I would like to remember everybody the mencal flamewar (one of the most stupid flamewars I hav

Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions

2005-03-02 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Seg, 2005-02-28 às 06:29, Helen Faulkner escreveu: > We would therefore like to call for suggestions for questions to be put > to the candidates during the debate. We hope to be able to choose a set > of questions which reflect the concerns and interests of Debian > Developers in general. Ok,