Re: Proposed plan (and license) for the webpage relicensing

2006-04-19 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 01:03:19AM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > I agree that the GNU GPL v2 would be a perfectly reasonable choice for > the Debian website. > Several other GPLv2-compatible licenses are good choices too, however. I'd rather use a simpler license for text content it is more under

Re: Proposed plan (and license) for the webpage relicensing

2006-04-19 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:56:57AM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > > > >I suggest using a BSD-style license. The attached license is such a > >license. It is based on the FreeBSD documentation license [3] and > >explicitely mentions translations. In our case (the website) the > >'

Re: Proposed plan (and license) for the webpage relicensing

2006-04-19 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:12:16 +0200 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I was reviewing the status of #238245 ("Debian web site is licensed > under the OPL which is not considered DFSG-free") and see that there > have been no actions since October last year and no discussio

Re: Proposed plan (and license) for the webpage relicensing

2006-04-19 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:09:15 -0500 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On 19 Apr 2006, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña uttered the following: [...] > > > > a) a proper license should be decided for the website. > > > > I suggest using a BSD-style license. The attached license is such a > > license. It is bas

Re: Proposed plan (and license) for the webpage relicensing

2006-04-19 Thread Jutta Wrage
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 19.04.2006 um 13:12 schrieb Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña: e) from here on access to the CVS of the website should be given after clearly stating (and getting and agreement) that any and all contributions to the CVS, unless specified ot

I must be misunderstanding smth - April 0th, 2006??

2006-04-19 Thread David Perry
in the recent news, the date is somewhat weird - afaik ISO compliant date format doesn't involve 0th day of a month ;) besides, the string that reads This is the second update of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (codename ‘sarge$rsquo;) in my opinion needs to be edited slightly. Yours truly, -dp -- To UNSU

Errors on todays debian-news

2006-04-19 Thread Florian Sievers
Hi, there are some errors on the debian news page ( http://www.debian.org/News/2006/20060419 ) for the r2 update. First error: April 0th, 2006 And in the first sentence: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (codename ‘sarge$rsquo;) Florian Sievers -- http://www.dopehouse.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#363531: wiki.debian.org update notifications lack a sane header to filter on

2006-04-19 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal [as there's no wiki.debian.org pseudo package for the bts (yet?), I'm filing this here.] On wiki.debian.org, one can subscribe to a page to receive changes by email. However, those emails lack a sane header to filter on (like Mailinglist:, or X-Wiki-Updat

Bug#363532: wiki lacks contact info

2006-04-19 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal [filing this against www.debian.org as this seems the closest fit] wiki.debian.org lacks any contact info for technical problems, or where to report bugs. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, '

Bug#363510: marked as done (www.debian.org: please indicate at /devel/people that an asterisk means "comaintainer", if it does)

2006-04-19 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:27:06 +0200 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#363510: www.debian.org: please indicate at /devel/people that an asterisk means "comaintainer", if it does has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim

Request to add Linux research resources page to your links

2006-04-19 Thread Narsi Santhanam
Hello,   I was browsing the Net when I came across your resource page for Linux @ http://www.debian.org/misc/related_links   I am the co-ordinator for a page ( http://www.eit.in/sw/os/linux/research/linux_research.html ) that provides comprehensive web resources concerning research and

Re: Regarding debian support websites list

2006-04-19 Thread gg gg234
Hi,   Can some one please add this site to the require place.   Best Regards       On 14/03/06, Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 03:54:17PM -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote:> On 03/08/2006 01:40 PM, gg gg234 wrote: > > Hi,> >> > In debian website this page

Bug#194549: Wait for DFSG-free wiki

2006-04-19 Thread Filipus Klutiero
IMHO, it would be better to wait until wiki.d.o is DFSG-free, as I expect readers would expect that from Debian's wiki. That could take some time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#363510: www.debian.org: please indicate at /devel/people that an asterisk means "comaintainer", if it does

2006-04-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist File: http://debian.org/devel/people Many names have an asterisk following their packages; apparently this means that they are a comaintainer. Please document. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Bug#363496: www.debian.org/doc/books should list books publication year

2006-04-19 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist Hi! IMHO it would be nice to list the year when the book was published / last edited, not only to which distribution they apply, too. e.g. the "Debian Anwender Handbuch" by Frank Ronneburg has been re-edited and expanded at least one time since sarge h

Bug#363493: www.debian.org: many links to source packages in sarge updates (3.1r1, r2) broken

2006-04-19 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal For example in http://www.us.debian.org/News/2006/20060419, there is a link to http://packages.debian.org/xine-lib, which is broken since there is no xine-lib binary package. It looks like adding stable/sources/ to the correction and dsa tags in webwml

Bug#238245: Proposed plan (and license) for the webpage relicensing

2006-04-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 19 Apr 2006, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña uttered the following: > In summary: The web pages license content should be changed from the > OPL (non DFSG-free) to some other license (DFSG-free). As it is, the > current content is not GPL compatible (so it cannot be reused, for > example, in doc

Re: Policy Translation

2006-04-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 10 Apr 2006, Jens Seidel wrote: > Hi Felipe, > > I added Manoj Srivastava to CC: because he has write access to the > debian-policy CVS module > (http://cvs.debian.org/debian-policy/?root=debian-policy). Since it > is stored outside DDP (debian-doc module) I doubt that people from > the DDP ha

Proposed plan (and license) for the webpage relicensing

2006-04-19 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
Hi everyone, I was reviewing the status of #238245 ("Debian web site is licensed under the OPL which is not considered DFSG-free") and see that there have been no actions since October last year and no discussion at debian-www. In summary: The web pages license content should be changed from th

Bad Links

2006-04-19 Thread Keith Parkansky
On your "Vendors of Debian CDs" page at http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ under "United" States the please add the following to my About Debian.com listing: DVD Type: Official CD On this same page under "United States" the following links are bad: GetLINUXnow.com - 404 LinuxDist - No CDs for