Sorry for the late reply but I was in Palestine
and now I work in Germany...
Am 2006-07-08 12:03:54, schrieb Sam Morris:
> > It is questionable whether the Linux Kernel you are running is free (it
> > violates the GPL),
>
> Cite please. If you really think this is true, please file a bug against
> the linux-2.6 package.
Maybe not in Debian but in the vanilla kernel from kernel.org
> > >Furthermore, if Linux 2.4 is
> > >recommended over 2.6 then Debian should ship 2.4 as the default (I
> > >believe 2.4 is to be dropped from the Etch release entirely).
> >
> > It seems that you forgot that Linux-2.4 is the latest stable version.
> > All newer Linux kernel versions are in alpha/pre-alpha state
>
> "Stable" according to whom? Etch will ship 2.6.16; the only changes that
> will be made to the kernel packages (and all other packages) during
> Etch's lifecycle are those which fix security flaws and critical bugs.
But I will use the 2.4.33 since I am in trouble with 2.6.X.
AND, - I was not able to get cdrecord running with 2.6.X
(Sarge, Etch and Sid)
> > If Debian would remove this note, Debian would violate the "Urheberrecht".
> > Do you really like that Debian violates the law?
>
> I'm sorry, but I don't read German and so I don't know what this means.
"Authorright" or "Droit d'autheur" en french.
> I do know that the version of cdrecord that Debian currently ships is
> made available under the GPL, which does allow the marked lines to be
> removed. If this is not the case then the package should be punted into
> non-free.
Not right, since the GPL say you can make exceptions if someone want
to fork or do something else. The clause to name the originalauthor
and its nonremoval is legitime by the GPL.
> > >(Also, 'inofficial' should be spelled 'unofficial')
> >
> > No, definitely not.
> >
> > My dictionary lists 'inofficial' before 'unofficial' and a native speaker
> > from
> > London did tell me that 'inofficial' is OK. Are you not a native speaker?
>
> Nonsense, it is not present in either my Oxford or Collins dictionaries.
> I searching for it on Google and gathered the impression that that it is
> mainly used by (German) non-native speakers.
I have checked my dictionaries, and "inofficial" is manly
used in England and Canada, while unofficial in the USA.
Greetings and nice weekend without war
between Developers, Upstreams and such...
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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