Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-06-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 06:53:42PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 03:03:27PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 03:55:48PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: The policy decision's at http://people.debian.org/~ajt/sarge_rc_policy.txt: ] Code in main and contrib

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-05-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 03:03:27PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 03:55:48PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: The policy decision's at http://people.debian.org/~ajt/sarge_rc_policy.txt: ] Code in main and contrib must meet the DFSG, both in .debs and ] in the source

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Craig Sanders wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:59:36AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-04-16 04:32:57 +0100 Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:19:39AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Even if not decided unanimously, the jury doesn't seem to be in much doubt on it where's

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Craig Sanders wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:59:36AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-04-16 04:32:57 +0100 Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:19:39AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Even if not decided unanimously, the jury doesn't seem to be in much doubt on it where's

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 03:55:48PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: The policy decision's at http://people.debian.org/~ajt/sarge_rc_policy.txt: ] Code in main and contrib must meet the DFSG, both in .debs and ] in the source (including the .orig.tar.gz) ] ] Documentation in main and contrib

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 03:55:48PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: The policy decision's at http://people.debian.org/~ajt/sarge_rc_policy.txt: ] Code in main and contrib must meet the DFSG, both in .debs and ] in the source (including the .orig.tar.gz) ] ] Documentation in main and contrib

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 01:55:17AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:59:36AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-04-16 04:32:57 +0100 Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:19:39AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Even if not decided unanimously, the jury

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 01:55:17AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:59:36AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-04-16 04:32:57 +0100 Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:19:39AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Even if not decided unanimously, the jury

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-18 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 11:27:38AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-04-17 01:21:59 +0100 Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no, it's the loony extremists who want to throw out good software just because they don't have carte-blanche to modify the documentation that are being silly. For

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-18 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 11:27:38AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-04-17 01:21:59 +0100 Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no, it's the loony extremists who want to throw out good software just because they don't have carte-blanche to modify the documentation that are being silly. For

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-17 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-04-17 01:21:59 +0100 Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no, it's the loony extremists who want to throw out good software just because they don't have carte-blanche to modify the documentation that are being silly. For the definition: loony, adj - disagreeing with Craig. For

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-16 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:59:36AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-04-16 04:32:57 +0100 Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:19:39AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Even if not decided unanimously, the jury doesn't seem to be in much doubt on it where's the GR and the vote?

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-16 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:59:36AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-04-16 04:32:57 +0100 Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:19:39AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Even if not decided unanimously, the jury doesn't seem to be in much doubt on it where's the GR and the vote?

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-16 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 01:55:17AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: where's the GR and the vote? hasn't happened. where's the policy decision? The policy decision's at http://people.debian.org/~ajt/sarge_rc_policy.txt: ] Code in main and contrib must meet the DFSG, both in .debs and ] in

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-16 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-04-16 04:32:57 +0100 Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:19:39AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Even if not decided unanimously, the jury doesn't seem to be in much doubt on it where's the GR and the vote? hasn't happened. where's the policy decision? doesn't

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-16 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:59:36AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-04-16 04:32:57 +0100 Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:19:39AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Even if not decided unanimously, the jury doesn't seem to be in much doubt on it where's the GR and the vote?

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-16 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:59:36AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-04-16 04:32:57 +0100 Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:19:39AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Even if not decided unanimously, the jury doesn't seem to be in much doubt on it where's the GR and the vote?

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-16 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 01:55:17AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: where's the GR and the vote? hasn't happened. where's the policy decision? The policy decision's at http://people.debian.org/~ajt/sarge_rc_policy.txt: ] Code in main and contrib must meet the DFSG, both in .debs and ] in

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-15 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-04-15 06:42:03 +0100 Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 10:36:07PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: maintainers who think (presumably because of the nonsense puffed out over the years) that the DFSG doesn't apply to documentation. as i pointed out in my last

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:19:39AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Even if not decided unanimously, the jury doesn't seem to be in much doubt on it where's the GR and the vote? hasn't happened. where's the policy decision? doesn't exist. in other words, it hasn't been decided yet. and it is

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 10:36:07PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Admittedly, many of the others are due to confusion on the part of all the examples you've posted so far have been examples of either slackness, indecision, or stupidity, not deliberate deception as you first claimed. but that

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-15 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-04-15 06:42:03 +0100 Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 10:36:07PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: maintainers who think (presumably because of the nonsense puffed out over the years) that the DFSG doesn't apply to documentation. as i pointed out in my last

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:19:39AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Even if not decided unanimously, the jury doesn't seem to be in much doubt on it where's the GR and the vote? hasn't happened. where's the policy decision? doesn't exist. in other words, it hasn't been decided yet. and it is

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 10:36:07PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Herbert Xu knows of non-free firmware in the kernel sources and is leaving it in main until someone else finds it. That's certainly deliberate and active, if not deception. That's not really accurate. Herbert seems to be

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-08 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040408 05:17]: as for RFCs and other documentation, the jury is still out on whether they can be included in main. no final decision has been made. you shouldn't pre-empt that decision by declaring them to be an attempt to sneak non-free stuff in main.

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craig Sanders wrote: | On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 01:38:15PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: | |Craig Sanders wrote: | | |On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 05:05:57PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: | |This would clarify the main point that has been spawning endless

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-08 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040408 05:17]: as for RFCs and other documentation, the jury is still out on whether they can be included in main. no final decision has been made. you shouldn't pre-empt that decision by declaring them to be an attempt to sneak non-free stuff in main.

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craig Sanders wrote: | On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 01:38:15PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: | |Craig Sanders wrote: | | |On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 05:05:57PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: | |This would clarify the main point that has been spawning

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 01:38:15PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Craig Sanders wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 05:05:57PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: This would clarify the main point that has been spawning endless attempts by occasional maintainers to sneak non-free stuff into main.

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 01:38:15PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Craig Sanders wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 05:05:57PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: This would clarify the main point that has been spawning endless attempts by occasional maintainers to sneak non-free stuff into main.

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Craig Sanders wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 05:05:57PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: This would clarify the main point that has been spawning endless attempts by occasional maintainers to sneak non-free stuff into main. what endless attempts would these be? have there been any

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Craig Sanders wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 05:05:57PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: This would clarify the main point that has been spawning endless attempts by occasional maintainers to sneak non-free stuff into main. what endless attempts would these be? have there been any

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 05:05:57PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: OK, while we're proposing changes How about ...entirely free software. This includes programs, documentation, data, and any other works which are part of the Debian system (except possibly license texts which are

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-03-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 07:59:09AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 05:05:57PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: [...] you bigots lost the vote (you didn't even come close) - can't you please just shut up and go away? do you really have to try to continue the discussion, by

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 05:05:57PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: OK, while we're proposing changes How about ...entirely free software. This includes programs, documentation, data, and any other works which are part of the Debian system (except possibly license texts which are

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-03-29 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 05:05:57PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: This would clarify the main point that has been spawning endless attempts by occasional maintainers to sneak non-free stuff into main. what endless attempts would these be? have there been any incidents in the real world (i.e.

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-03-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 07:59:09AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 05:05:57PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: [...] you bigots lost the vote (you didn't even come close) - can't you please just shut up and go away? do you really have to try to continue the discussion, by

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-03-27 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Andreas Barth wrote: Hi, I herby propose the following editorial changes to the SC, as alternative to Andrews proposal: | 1. Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software | | We promise to keep the Debian system and all its components entirely OK, while we're proposing changes How about

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-03-27 Thread Andreas Barth
* Nathanael Nerode ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040327 23:10]: How about ...entirely free software. This includes programs, documentation, data, and any other works which are part of the Debian system (except possibly license texts which are distributed only for legal reasons). We provide the

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-03-27 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Andreas Barth wrote: * Nathanael Nerode ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040327 23:10]: How about ...entirely free software. This includes programs, documentation, data, and any other works which are part of the Debian system (except possibly license texts which are distributed only for legal

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-03-27 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Andreas Barth wrote: Hi, I herby propose the following editorial changes to the SC, as alternative to Andrews proposal: | 1. Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software | | We promise to keep the Debian system and all its components entirely OK, while we're proposing changes How about

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-03-27 Thread Andreas Barth
* Nathanael Nerode ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040327 23:10]: How about ...entirely free software. This includes programs, documentation, data, and any other works which are part of the Debian system (except possibly license texts which are distributed only for legal reasons). We provide the

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-03-27 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Andreas Barth wrote: * Nathanael Nerode ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040327 23:10]: How about ...entirely free software. This includes programs, documentation, data, and any other works which are part of the Debian system (except possibly license texts which are distributed only for legal

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-03-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 08:15:09AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: I herby propose the following editorial changes to the SC, as alternative to Andrews proposal: Since ballot alternatives start out life as amendments to the current proposal, I think it would be helpful if you could provide this as

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-03-26 Thread Andreas Barth
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040326 21:10]: On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 08:15:09AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: I herby propose the following editorial changes to the SC, as alternative to Andrews proposal: Since ballot alternatives start out life as amendments to the current proposal,

GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-03-26 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, I herby propose the following editorial changes to the SC, as alternative to Andrews proposal: | 1. Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software | | We promise to keep the Debian system and all its components entirely | free software. We provide the guidelines that we use to determine if | a work

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-03-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 08:15:09AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: I herby propose the following editorial changes to the SC, as alternative to Andrews proposal: Since ballot alternatives start out life as amendments to the current proposal, I think it would be helpful if you could provide this as

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-03-26 Thread Andreas Barth
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040326 21:10]: On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 08:15:09AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: I herby propose the following editorial changes to the SC, as alternative to Andrews proposal: Since ballot alternatives start out life as amendments to the current proposal,

GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-03-25 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, I herby propose the following editorial changes to the SC, as alternative to Andrews proposal: | 1. Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software | | We promise to keep the Debian system and all its components entirely | free software. We provide the guidelines that we use to determine if | a work