Re: Chime instead of Zoom, a modest proposal

2020-04-14 Thread John Sullivan
more about it soon, but can confirm that it works for 20+, with video and screen sharing. Also have quite a bit of info at https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Remote_Communication. -john -- John Sullivan | he/his/him | Executive Director and VP, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: A462 6CBA FF37 6039

Re: SPDX legal team leadership

2019-06-06 Thread John Sullivan
t your new adventure. > +1! :) -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: A462 6CBA FF37 6039 D2D7 5544 97BA 9CE7 61A0 963B https://status.fsf.org/johns | https://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Do you use free software? Donate to join the FSF and support freed

Re: but in long name of WTFYW license

2018-05-17 Thread John Sullivan
it’s > worth changing unless there is a compelling reason or something has > changed to warrant it. Swear words also cause web pages to get blocked by filters/proxies, especially in US public schools. -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key

Re: update on only/or later etc.

2017-11-17 Thread John Sullivan
s. This is similar to an > approach we discussed on the last call, with one variation. As such, > I’d like to propose the following path forward (again, using GPL-2.0 > but for all GNU licenses): > Thanks to everyone for working with us on this! -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Dire

Re: only/or later and the goals of SPDX

2017-11-09 Thread John Sullivan
"Wheeler, David A" writes: > John Sullivan: >> A key part is missing in the description of the original FSF proposal here >> though -- which is deprecating the existing GPL-2.0 and similar "plain" >> identifiers for GNU licenses so that the identifiers us

Re: only/or later and the goals of SPDX

2017-10-12 Thread John Sullivan
r ways to indicate ambiguity/uncertainty, including possibly using NOASSERTION. Can we get a list of all of the options on the table for dealing with the case of "found a copy of the GPLv2, but no licensing statement anywhere"? -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software

Re: [v2] New license proposal: GNUVerbatim

2017-09-27 Thread John Sullivan
ted worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this notice is preserved." The notice you are pointing to in your footnotes is: "Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed." -john -- John Sullivan