Bug#964090: Please upload backport

2020-12-15 Thread MJ Ray
On 13 December 2020 20:19:42 UTC, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: >Hi, > >Cc'in the security-team alias. > >It is actually unlikely for the moment that we will revert the >200-disable-ghostscript-formats.patch patch again, which was firstly >included in the 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1+deb10u1 upload. It

Bug#964090: Error when converting from "jpg" to "pdf" since security upgrade "8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1+deb10u1"

2020-07-25 Thread MJ Ray
Additional information from upstream at https://imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?t=36287 suggests it was disabled because of something in ghostscript 9.26 I think buster already has 9.27 from security so I think we could update the imagemagick default configuration. Is there good rea

Bug#928814: package-update-indicator grayed out

2020-04-17 Thread MJ Ray
y personal view only) >From e2319e4dd2cc94742e1a0a75e2d612af13e74d68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: MJ Ray Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:17:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] * debian/patches/10_vendor_update_command.patch: add a reasonable default (Closes: #928814) * debian/tests/control: add test for update-command default b

Bug#924888: why bsd.license?

2019-04-04 Thread MJ Ray
Thank you to both of you for your excellent improvements to reduce the number of broken links on the web. -- MJR http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ Member of http://www.software.coop/ (but this email is my personal view only) pgpKuCXyahUhN.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#924888: why bsd.license?

2019-04-03 Thread MJ Ray
On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 12:26:13 +0200 Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > BSD, and > > I have checked that the content of the bsd.license file matches the > BSD-3-Clause license at opensource.org, so I've updated the links to > > https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause > > and removed the file. Coul

Bug#919356: Fw: Bug#919356: dwarves-dfsg: Copyright/licensing is unclear

2019-01-21 Thread MJ Ray
Missed the bug off the CC for this. Sorry. Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 13:34:13 + From: MJ Ray To: debian-le...@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#919356: dwarves-dfsg: Copyright/licensing is unclear Domenico Andreoli skribis: > the situation of dwarves-d

Bug#877949: Package description: do you really mean "offload"?

2017-10-09 Thread MJ Ray
Christian Seiler wrote: > I'm open to improving the package description, but I do want to keep > the work "offload" in a prominent position there, as that is the > standard technical term in this field, and people who want to use that > functionality will search for that word. I agree that "offl

Bug#877906: hwinfo: hangs forever at > bios.2: ram

2017-10-06 Thread MJ Ray (Debian)
Package: hwinfo Version: 21.49-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Running "hwinfo --bios" displays things overtyping itself then hangs forever with "> bios.2: ram" displayed. Running it in strace shows that this is just after it opens /dev/mem Thanks for any assistance or advice you can offer.

Bug#757452: iceowl-extension: notify attendees not working on caldav calendar events

2014-08-08 Thread MJ Ray
Package: iceowl-extension Version: 24.7.0-1~deb7u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I was creating an event in the calendar and adding remote (not on my caldav server) attendees. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective

Bug#722563: lxlauncher: does not display debian menus

2013-09-12 Thread MJ Ray
Package: lxlauncher Version: 0.2.2-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, lxlauncher only shows a small subset of the installed applications, while I would expect it to offer access to as many as possible. It seems capable of using the full debian menu with only a few changes, so please would you f

Bug#707651: Wiki password recovery not working for me

2013-05-13 Thread MJ Ray
Steve McIntyre <93...@debian.org> > Slightly taken aback by the severity: important bug, but whatever... It's debatably correct: "important: a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package, without rendering it completely unusable to everyone." Being unable to recover a password has

Bug#701938: [www.debian.org] Debian Trademarks: Branden Robinson presented as DPL

2013-03-04 Thread MJ Ray
Holger wrote: > The Debian UK Society, by Branden Robinson (Debian Project Leader at the time > of decision). That line is rather moot. That business no longer exists and I think zack has just terminated its licence for that reason. http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/english/trademar

Bug#692824: dtc-common: User cronjobs form minutes option name-value mismatch

2012-11-09 Thread MJ Ray
Package: dtc-common Version: 0.34.6-1~bpo60+1 Severity: normal Tags: patch upstream In client panel: domain: Cron jobs, the option "Each 10 minutes" actually runs the job every 15 minutes, the "Each 15 minutes" runs it every 20 and so on. This seems to be a misplaced closing comment around line 5

Bug#690879: supybot: Rejects valid URLs as invalid if they contain authentication info

2012-10-22 Thread MJ Ray
cause my trigger for the error was the RSS module, which I think doesn't use getUrlFd but passes the URL as-is to feedparser, which copes with it. Is Limnoria in debian? Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter

Bug#690879: supybot: Rejects valid URLs as invalid if they contain authentication info

2012-10-18 Thread MJ Ray
Package: supybot Version: 0.83.4.1.ds-2 Severity: normal Any commands that are defined as expecting a URL will reject some valid URLs if they contain a username and/or password and an @ before the hostname. I have checked and it is not fixed upstream at sourceforge. I have a possible patch for th

Bug#690853: evolution: Setup requires username and password entered repeatedly

2012-10-18 Thread MJ Ray
Package: evolution Version: 2.30.3-5 Severity: normal Even if access to many services on a server uses one username and password, evolution still needs the details entering 5 or more times. Each user has imap, smtp, cal, shared caldav calendars, and so on. Each of these has to be set up manually

Bug#690797: mpt-status: fails to detect controller for Dell LSI 53c1030

2012-10-17 Thread MJ Ray
Package: mpt-status Version: 1.2.0-7 Severity: normal lspci reports LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI mpt-status -p returns "Nothing found, contact the author" Package sends an email saying that every two hours. -- System Information: Debian Rel

Bug#690231: wiki.debian.org: error in Locale page (sshd vs. ssh))

2012-10-16 Thread MJ Ray
Paul Wise > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Francesco Potortì wrote: > > > There is a field named "ReCaptcha (required)" without any picture or > > input field. And I am refused subscription because I entered no captcha. > > It is likely that you will need to enable JavaScript, accept > third

Bug#678540: wiki.debian.org - no accessible login/registration method

2012-06-22 Thread MJ Ray
Package: wiki.debian.org Severity: normal The account creation page http://wiki.debian.org/FrontPage?action=newaccount requires people to pass a reCaptcha, which is annoying for able-bodied users and downright impossible for some users with disabilities. The login page http://wiki.debian.org/Fron

Bug#678539: wiki.debian.org - "Immutable Page" on all pages

2012-06-22 Thread MJ Ray
Package: wiki.debian.org Severity: normal Every page on the wiki says "Immutable Page" even when they can be edited if one logs in. If registration is required, change the message to "Login to Edit" or just hide it for unauthenticated users. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ.

Bug#678536: lists.debian.org - list info page displays link to recent archives even when there is no archive

2012-06-22 Thread MJ Ray
Package: lists.debian.org Severity: normal Pages like http://lists.debian.org/debian-bugs-dist/ for lists with no archive still include You can link to the most recent page in the archives for this list. right above the text that says there is no archive. Unsurprisingly, the link doesn't work.

Bug#637622: config file modifiable by users in /var/lib/dtc

2012-06-14 Thread MJ Ray
ather for users to dismiss or attackers to spoof. Could that one be moved to /etc/dtc, please? Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.o

Bug#644496: duplicity: Can't restore a single file with --file-to-restore

2012-01-25 Thread MJ Ray
Here is a little more info. I think that I have encountered a similar problem and in my case, I believe it was because I had got in a muddle with GPG keys in the initial setup, then corrected it after the first full backup, so the backup chain was not all using the same key. It does seem to be a

Bug#388141: Handling the copyright mess of the website

2012-01-04 Thread MJ Ray
r material on the website if asked, so long as the previous licence(s) also held. Hope that informs, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ema

Bug#607839: Question about GNOME Trademark and GNOME project packages in Debian

2011-07-15 Thread MJ Ray
Joerg Jaspert wrote: > We feel that it is infeasible for Debian to be in complete compliance > with the current GNOME trademark license. [...] OK, sorry if this is an old chestnut, but do we actually need a licence in general? Is most of the use in Debian more than honest description of the sourc

Bug#436212: closed by Simon Paillard (Re: Bug#436212: 64 Studio should be listed at misc/children-distros)

2011-04-30 Thread MJ Ray
Thank you for fixing this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#616359: dtc-common: install script left server incompletely configured after upgrade

2011-03-03 Thread MJ Ray
Package: dtc-common Version: 0.29.17-1+lenny1 Severity: normal After installing the security update for DSA-2179-1, the control panel was not working (some php missing file error that I did not note - sorry), so I ran /usr/share/dtc/admin/install/install and it failed with the output ending: ===>

Bug#614390: cmake provides files under proprietary license

2011-02-23 Thread MJ Ray
Modestas Vainius wrote: > this bug is serious (i.e. the file is not shippable), isn't it? Problematic > copyright notice is below. The copyright notice is false (the confidentiality has been broken) but I see no permission to distribute, so your claim seems correct. Hope that helps, -- MJR/slef

Bug#515200: Providing an openssl-linked pycurl

2010-06-29 Thread MJ Ray
Guido Trotter wrote: > According to my understandment: > > - OpenSSL is released under a license which is GPL incompatible, unless an > exception to the GPL is used in the software compiled with it. Debian cannot > distribute GPL software released under the unmodified GPL and linked against >

Bug#357791: irc2html.scm: changing back from ITP to RFP

2010-05-25 Thread MJ Ray
retitle 357791 ITP: irc2html.scm -- Convert IRC chat logs into valid HTML with valid CSS owner 357791 ! thanks That was a really unhelpful automatic email, making work for busy developers. This would be a fairly quick package, but I've not had time for it. I still intend to package it, when tim

Bug#186958: koha: changing back from ITP to RFP

2010-05-25 Thread MJ Ray
retitle 186958 ITP: koha -- Web-based library automation package owner 186958 ! thanks That was a really unhelpful automatic email, making work for busy developers. People over at koha-community.org are working on packaging right now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists

Bug#571146: www.debian.org: add link to IBM Public License

2010-02-28 Thread MJ Ray
Russ Allbery > Could you add a link to the IBM Public License 1.0 to > www.debian.org/legal/licenses/? This license is used by Postfix and > OpenAFS and has been accepted in Debian main since 2000. I suspect it didn't appear there because the name isn't distinctive and varies a bit (see below).

Bug#565884: Please include CeCILL* licenses in common-licenses

2010-01-20 Thread MJ Ray
Thibaut Paumard suggested: > there is a growing body of packages (or at least files) under > [1]CeCILL license in the archive. [...] > [1] http://www.cecill.info/licences.en.html Roughly how many packages/files are under the licence? CeCILL Article 5.3.4 states "The Licensee can include a code th

Bug#553336: dtc-common: Unable to set shared_renewal_shutdown from dtcadmin web

2009-12-15 Thread MJ Ray
o drawRenewalsConfig and related places and send a patch when we can. Hope that's OK, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster and LMS developer at | software www.software.coop http://mjr.towers.org.uk| co IMO only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html | op -- To UNSUBSCR

Bug#558802: dtc-common: always sends emails

2009-11-30 Thread MJ Ray (Debian)
Package: dtc-common Version: 0.29.17-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch There does not seem to be an option to switch off the renewal email reminders, which is desirable on shared hosting servers. The attached patch adds the feature for shared hosting, where a zero-size reminder message file in /e

Bug#553336: dtc-common: Unable to set shared_renewal_shutdown from dtcadmin web

2009-10-30 Thread MJ Ray
Package: dtc-common Version: 0.29.17-1 Severity: important I think shared_renewal_shutdown may be unreachable through the dtcadmin web. I expected it to be in /usr/share/dtc/admin/inc/dtc_config.php function drawRenewalsConfig. Is it somewhere else? If not, would that be the right place to ad

Bug#532456: Are these licenses DFSG?

2009-09-29 Thread MJ Ray
cate wrote: > Eugen Dedu wrote: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532456, about licenses > I think there is a problem in terminology. AFAIK (but IANAL), the > "any use" doesn't include distribution of software. > For this reason I think it is safe to classify it as non distributa

Bug#547698: Fixed in SID

2009-09-24 Thread MJ Ray
Thomas Goirand wrote: > If I'm not mistaking, this has been fixed on the 0.30.x series of DTC. > Please upgrade to it, our Lenny repository at GPLHost has this version > and the necessary dependency back-ported: > deb ftp://ftp.gplhost.com/debian lenny main That contradicts the instruction on the

Bug#547698: dtc-common: spelling mistake in new ticket notifications

2009-09-21 Thread MJ Ray
Package: dtc-common Version: 0.29.17-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch The email for "A customer has submitted a support ticket" says hostingame instead of hostname. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: L

Bug#545047: tasksel: iamerican and ibritish are no longer standard, readjust language tasks as needed.

2009-09-06 Thread MJ Ray
Christian Perrier wrote: [...] > Another option would be dropping the british task and use "iamerican" > and "ibritish" in a general "english" task (after all, is it correct > to only have iamerican for en_IN, en_AU or en_ZA?) As I understand it, en_AU and en_NZ use words from both iamerican and

Bug#543531: dtc-common: MX records in uppercase not allowed

2009-08-25 Thread MJ Ray
Package: dtc-common Version: 0.29.17-1 Severity: minor It is not possible to enter MX records in uppercase. The data entry page for DNS and MX silently deletes them. The DNS RFCs often user uppercase as examples, so this is probably a bug. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT pre

Bug#517790: mydns -- DNS server using MySQL or PostgreSQL for data storage

2009-08-14 Thread MJ Ray
It looks like this package would be based on MyDNS-ng, rather than MyDNS. That is a good thing. Would it be based on the old packaging removed after http://bugs.debian.org/382656 ? I have an only-updated git tree of that which builds 1.2.8.27 with lots of lintian warnings that should be fixed be

Bug#537117: libdbix-searchbuilder-perl: attempts to lower() timestamps on postgresql

2009-07-15 Thread MJ Ray
Package: libdbix-searchbuilder-perl Version: 1.54-1 Severity: normal I upgraded a system to lenny and many "rt ls" searches stopped working. Viewing the logs discovered that request-tracker3.6 command line client was resulting in a call to lower() on a timestamp, which isn't a common function in p

Bug#535830: ITP: php-recaptcha -- reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service

2009-07-07 Thread MJ Ray
"Angel Abad \(Ikusnet SLL\)" wrote: > [...] No computer program can read > distorted text as well as humans can, so bots cannot navigate sites > protected by CAPTCHAs. This sentence is false. It depends on the ability of the humans. Also, many other sorts of CAPTCHAs exist besides distorted text

Bug#414398: Processed: Does this bug still exist?

2009-05-17 Thread MJ Ray
Rene Engelhard wrote: > [...] I'd close the bug then EXCEPT that I am not sure what > is correct hyphenation for o'clock? none? o'-clock like OOo with > openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us on lenny does? I believe o'clock should not be hyphenated. Neither the Collins nor (as far as I understand it)

Bug#524835: ITP: thaifonts-siampradesh -- Thai TrueType fonts derived from DIP/SIPA contested fonts

2009-04-20 Thread MJ Ray
ply because I was avoiding the OFL-fu and didn't understand editing it could possibly change the postcard clause. > MJ Ray wrote: > > While not a DFSG problem, I think it's misleading to call this > > cooperative font creation when the sale restriction limits economic > >

Bug#524835: ITP: thaifonts-siampradesh -- Thai TrueType fonts derived from DIP/SIPA contested fonts

2009-04-20 Thread MJ Ray
Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: > * License : OFL-alike, with written notification requirement (see > below) I believe this font is postcard-ware, so does not follow the DFSG, so cannot be part of debian. cc'ing debian-legal to check. > * License: > > Font Computer Program License Agr

Bug#521448: gammu: gnapplet.sis requires packages which are not in our archive (was: distributing precompiled binaries)

2009-03-30 Thread MJ Ray
clone 521448 -1 retitle -1 p3nfs: applet build requires packages which are not in debian stop Michal Čihař wrote: > MJ Ray napsal(a): > > This email is to reopen bug 521448. As I understand the close > > message, while gammu's source does contain source code for > >

Bug#521448: gammu: gnapplet.sis requires packages which are not in our archive (was: distributing precompiled binaries)

2009-03-29 Thread MJ Ray
he section of debian-policy is http://www.fr.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-contrib The email discussion of gammu's gnapplet.sis and a similar case starts at http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2009/03/msg00127.html It finished with:- Francesco Poli wrote: > On Sun, 29 Mar 2009

Bug#520840: ITP: wordpress-theme-inove -- WordPress theme "iNove"

2009-03-23 Thread MJ Ray
> License: Creative Commons What CC licence is being used? I found no reference to it on the URL given or in the download. Is this even CC? Thanks, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct --

Bug#389876: ITP: koha -- web-based library catalogue (ILS/OPAC)

2009-03-16 Thread MJ Ray
due to the large amount of > architecture-independent data files) and as there are apparently 50MB > of translation files, possible also seperate koha-language- > packages. Yes, I'd agree with that split as a minimum. I'm open to suggestions about whether we want libkoha-perl

Bug#517346: ITP: openmeeg -- library and tools for solving EEG and MEG forward and inverse problems

2009-03-02 Thread MJ Ray
> * URL : http://www-sop.inria.fr/odyssee/software/OpenMEEG/ > * License : CeCILL-B There is a concern that CeCILL-B contaminates other software (the debian websites) because of the advertising requirement in 5.3.4.3, as explained in http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2008/12

Bug#517404: ITP: polyorb -- The PolyORB schizophrenic middleware for Ada

2009-03-02 Thread MJ Ray
> * URL : https://libre.adacore.com/polyorb/ > * License : GMGPL Is that a typo? Looks like GNU GPL from here. Thanks, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Bug#514984: ITP: getdata -- retrieval, updating and indexing of public data collections

2009-02-13 Thread MJ Ray
> * URL : http://wiki.debian.org/getData > * License : AGPL http://wiki.debian.org/getData says:- "distributed under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL)." The packager is also the copyright-holder, but this isn't a serving application, so I beg you not to change to Af

Bug#511613: ITA: libpam-pwgen -- a password generator

2009-02-04 Thread MJ Ray
one of the common DFSG-free licenses. Summarised from the emails by Paul Wise, Mark Weyer, Ben Finney and myself. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (N

Bug#509546: www.debian.org: not suitable consultants list

2009-01-17 Thread MJ Ray
Hi - I've been cc'd on the change request, but I thought I was told to leave it to the consultants team, so I'm not acting on it. Hope that's OK, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRI

Bug#492696: Combining Artistic|GPL-1+ with GPL-2 and LGPL-3+

2009-01-16 Thread MJ Ray
Damyan Ivanov wrote: > [Please Cc me on replies. Thanks] > Most of the code is licensed under "the same terms as Perl itself", [...] > In addition to that, some icons are licensed under LGPL-3+, and some > more icons are licensed under GPL-2. > > From how I understand it, if we choose GPL-2 for t

Bug#510493: RFC: licence of ITP: s3sync-ruby

2009-01-11 Thread MJ Ray
Florian Weimer wrote: > * MJ Ray: > > > 3. is the licence any obstacle to meeting DFSG? > > It doesn't mention the act of running the program or using it. > Or does this activity fall under "display"? The licence does mention using it, in "Your use

Bug#510493: RFC: licence of ITP: s3sync-ruby

2009-01-04 Thread MJ Ray
I hope no-one minds, but I'd like some smart analysis of this software's licence, so I'm asking debian-legal for their views. Please keep the Cc to the ITP report on replies. juanro...@gmail.com wrote: * Package name: s3sync-ruby * URL : http://s3sync.net/ * License : Othe

Bug#509546: www.debian.org: not suitable consultants list

2008-12-29 Thread MJ Ray
Hideki Yamane wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:58:44 + > MJ Ray wrote: > Just search with "nihonlinux" :) > http://slashdot.jp/linux/article.pl?sid=02/10/29/1244228 > > # or ask DDs in slashdot.jp (ODSN, http://osdn.jp/). Should we stop linking to a debi

Bug#509546: www.debian.org: not suitable consultants list

2008-12-29 Thread MJ Ray
nnouncement on http://www.debian.org/consultants/info though. Might be worth emailing them just to check that they still work with debian. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.to

Bug#509164: libdatetime-format-sqlite-perl URL and license?

2008-12-19 Thread MJ Ray
This module does not appear on URL : http://datetime.perl.org/ according to the search box on that site. Also, is the licence GPL+Artistic or "as Perl"? That's what I was trying to check. Thanks for any replies, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please

Bug#508377: www.debian.org: broken link on Debian GNU/Hurd Development page

2008-12-12 Thread MJ Ray
Jani Uusitalo wrote: > On http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-devel there's a link, labeled > 'Development of the Hurd', which refers to > http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/devel.html - this page doesn't exist on the > server (it responds with a 404 - Page Not Found). New link probably should

Bug#508249: ITP: libio-pager-perl -- pipe output to a pager if destination is a TTY

2008-12-12 Thread MJ Ray
"brian m. carlson" wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 11:19:42AM +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > >* License : other > > - Thou shalt not claim ownership of unmodified materials. > > - Thou shalt not claim whole ownership of modified materials. > > - Thou shalt grant the indemnity of the provid

Bug#508468: ITP: ssreflect -- small scale reflection extension for the Coq proof assistant

2008-12-12 Thread MJ Ray
Stephane Glondu wrote: > * Package name: ssreflect > * URL : http://www.msr-inria.inria.fr/Projects/math-components > * License : CeCILL-B RFC from debian-legal regarding the license:- I think we've consensus on software that uses CeCILL (upgradeable to GPL, so meets DFSG

Bug#507873: CD vendors cleanup needed

2008-12-05 Thread MJ Ray
Package: www.debian.org X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forwarded: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm putting this report into the bug tracker so someone else can complete it before I do, if appropriate. Frank Lin

Bug#495721: AGPL and Debian

2008-12-02 Thread MJ Ray
I'll only comment on point 1, the use fee, because I think others have answered the other questions and found solutions for the problem. Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We do not think that this is a severe enough problem to restrict the > freeness of a work licensed using the AGPL. >

Bug#506977: FPC: copyright infringement in pre 2.2.2 sources

2008-11-26 Thread MJ Ray
Paul Gevers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] Could you help by explaining what needs to be done > (if anything) with the current old-stable, stable and testing sources? > It looks like we should take this seriously, but I fear this is slightly > above my head. Especially the fact that upstream re

Bug#506609: axyl: code copy of Xinha ships the ImageManager plugin released under the PHP 2.02 licence

2008-11-25 Thread MJ Ray
Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I repeatedly stated my opinion on the PHP license and its unfixed > issues: I personally think that the PHP License (up to version 3.01), > fails to meet the DFSG, even for PHP itself! > However I failed to gain consensus on debian-legal about the p

Bug#506042: AGPL freeness bugs until #495721 is resolved

2008-11-25 Thread MJ Ray
Just rounding off a few loose edges. Stopping for reasons explained near the end:- Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > MJ Ray wrote: > > For example, a PHPBB service page is about 20k, while PHPBB source is > > 2.19MiB. > You have a mighty uninteresting f

Bug#506042: AGPL freeness bugs until #495721 is resolved

2008-11-24 Thread MJ Ray
Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MJ Ray wrote: > > I thank you for your personal view (which will be useful for software > > where you are a licensor), but this is essentially the same anecdotal > > advocacy which has been covered in previous discussion

Bug#506609: axyl: code copy of Xinha ships the ImageManager plugin released under the PHP 2.02 licence

2008-11-24 Thread MJ Ray
Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -legal: can a final concensus be reached on whether this licence is DFSG-free? I'm happy to support http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/08/msg00128.html To summarise:- - unacceptable name approval restrictions for anything except PHP (DFSG 4);

Bug#506042: AGPL freeness bugs until #495721 is resolved

2008-11-24 Thread MJ Ray
Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-11-24 15:06:03.00 MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As it was not a mistake, this bug is not serious, but the desire for > > some users to avoid unlimited download costs remains, so is it OK with > > you if I

Bug#495721: Progress on AGPLv3 concerns

2008-11-24 Thread MJ Ray
There have been some changes in this. Firstly, the relevant FAQ has clarified some problems about whether servers must have the opportunity to download client source code; see http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mobile.funambol.user/1391 Secondly, ftpmasters have a "working opinion" that AGPL m

Bug#506042: AGPL freeness bugs until #495721 is resolved

2008-11-24 Thread MJ Ray
ake, so the bug report was valid. As it was not a mistake, this bug is not serious, but the desire for some users to avoid unlimited download costs remains, so is it OK with you if I reopen this bug but downgrade it to wishlist? Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and o

Bug#505878: ITP: libfunambol-cpp-client-api -- unclarified AGPL

2008-11-18 Thread MJ Ray
David Bremner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might want to follow up on the thread in debian-legal > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2008/11/msg00046.html > I understand someone from Funambol is following that thread. > > It would be nice to have some concensus about what, if any excep

Bug#505878: ITP: libfunambol-cpp-client-api -- unclarified AGPL

2008-11-17 Thread MJ Ray
libfunambol-cpp-client-api appears to be under a plain AGPLv3. Clause 13 of the AGPLv3 requires hosting users to provide "access to the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge" to every visitor to the web pages generated by this software. If used to produce a public website, this

Bug#506042: yocto-reader: infinite download liability for public use

2008-11-17 Thread MJ Ray
Source: yocto-reader Version: 0.9.3 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 yocto-reader is under the AGPLv3 with no clarifications. Clause 13 of the AGPLv3 requires any hosting user to provide "access to the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge" to every visitor to the w

Bug#505253: www.debian.org: Logo page missing licenses

2008-11-16 Thread MJ Ray
Alex Brotman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also meant the ones just above those two links, the "Power By" images. > > "Here are some more buttons that have been made for Debian: " > > The images are hosted on the debian servers, but there is no license > associated with them. I believe those ima

Bug#505253: Upstream uncontactable for one site...

2008-11-16 Thread MJ Ray
[EMAIL PROTECTED] SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host celiknet.com [212.175.105.24]: 550 5.1.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User unknown; rejecting Ouch. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org

Bug#501121: jd: package description inadequate

2008-10-07 Thread MJ Ray
> > - 2channel (http://www.2ch.net) > > - Shitaraba (http://rentalbbs.livedoor.com/jbbs/) > > - Machi-BBS (http://www.machi.to/) > > * END * Other than that, no errors leaped out at me. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop

Bug#437842: lists.debian.org: request creation of a debian-mediation mailing list

2008-09-02 Thread MJ Ray
Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Context: the creation of a debian-mediation@ mailing list is requested > in #437842. > > I support the proposal. [...reasons...] I support the proposal if:- "exempt of banning and other abuse commonly seen in when these issues are handled in other debia

Bug#496659: Genicorp General Public Licence

2008-08-26 Thread MJ Ray
a list would usually be read as "both". I hope you're right, though. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.htm

Bug#496659: Genicorp General Public Licence

2008-08-26 Thread MJ Ray
Maximilian Gaß <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm currently packaging libopenoffice-oodoc-perl and stumbled upon its > license: > > > This software is free software. It is subject to the terms and > > conditions of both > > > > - the GNU Lesser General Public Licence, version 2.1, of

Bug#496346: openarena: contains lcc, which is not free software

2008-08-26 Thread MJ Ray
Peter De Wachter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OpenArena contains a copy of the lcc compiler in the code/tools/lcc > directory, which does not seem free software as it does not allow > commercial distribution. I agree. The early parts make it look like a BSD-style licence, but the license part sta

Bug#488436: www.debian.org: debian.org redirecto to www.en.debian.org

2008-06-30 Thread MJ Ray
it > in fact redirects to www.us.debian.org instead of the generic > www.debian.org. OK. That's not what the bug report said (see Subject). I see later email from Josip Rodin about this, so I'll bow out now. Thanks for your help, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online sh

Bug#488206: Which Esperanto translation should we use for eject debconf message?

2008-06-28 Thread MJ Ray
like "output" and the second "throw out". Probably the second is less confusing, because "output" appears in other situations in computing and it's closer to the msgid literally. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop b

Bug#460591: Falcon P.L. license (ITP:Bug#460591)

2008-04-07 Thread MJ Ray
Giancarlo Niccolai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MJ Ray wrote: > > Anyway, this is the show-stopper. Contaminates other software. DFSG 9. > > It's the parts of FPL sections 1, 2 and 5 about Scripts. Clear enough? > > > Yes, your position is now clear, thanks

Bug#469256: kexec-tools: Please use a boolean question with debconf

2008-04-04 Thread MJ Ray
Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might need to explain us in more details what is a "kexec'able" kernel. I think I would write either kexec-enabled or kexec-ready, depending on whether it is the kernel that can kexec, or the kernel to be loaded by kexec, respectively. Hope that

Bug#460591: Falcon P.L. license (ITP:Bug#460591)

2008-04-01 Thread MJ Ray
Giancarlo Niccolai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skribis: > MJ Ray wrote: [...] > > In general, I'm disappointed to see this licence proliferation. > I am too. > > There isn't any single open source mainstream programming language or > even compiler I know, includin

Bug#460591: Falcon P.L. license (ITP:Bug#460591)

2008-03-25 Thread MJ Ray
Giancarlo Niccolai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > The license is tightly based on Apache 2, with extra clarifications > and permissions. [...] Summary: I believe that any interpreter under this Falcon P.L. licence will contaminate other software and so fail DFSG 9. Also, I think the licence c

Bug#388141: Discussions elsewhere

2008-03-12 Thread MJ Ray
These two bugs are being discussed by DPL candidates after http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2008/03/msg00065.html and the current DPL has been asked the current status by an SPI board member, as reported in http://lists.spi-inc.org/pipermail/spi-general/2008-March/002538.html One candidate's te

Bug#468765: # of supported packages (was Re: Is oldstable security support duration something to be proud of?)

2008-03-11 Thread MJ Ray
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, MJ Ray wrote: > > I'm proud about the work that's been done, but I'm not proud that > > 3.1 has security support for only a year after 4.0 was released. > > You yourself may not be, but

Bug#468765: # of supported packages (was Re: Is oldstable security support duration something to be proud of?)

2008-03-10 Thread MJ Ray
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > If there are serious numbers of developers and contributors who don't > feel proud about the work that's been done, then they should voice > support for some modification to the text. [...] Sorry, but that's a misleading requirement. I'm proud abou

Bug#463553: www.debian.org: partners/ Black Cat Networks have ceased ops?

2008-02-01 Thread MJ Ray
Package: www.debian.org Tags: help http://www.debian.org/partners/ includes Black Cat Networks and links to http://www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk/ which says Black Cat Networks are pleased to announce that RapidSwitch have taken over running all our services. All sales and support enquiries for

Bug#452387: Misleading statement in debian-faq s1.5, was: Ideas about a GR to fix the DAM

2007-11-22 Thread MJ Ray
e too surprised when people expect project systems to be open and allow autonomous direct action more readily. Cc'ing BTS for the debian-faq [please trim submit from followups]. Please resend to anyone else calling the debian project a cooperative. Regards, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org

Bug#450945: mydns: new upstream with new version may solve memory problems

2007-11-12 Thread MJ Ray
g-dev to Build-Depends due to cidr.c:21 wanting +pgtypes_timestamp.h + + -- MJ Ray (Debian) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:06:34 + + mydns (1:1.1.0-7) unstable; urgency=low * Added new translations, l10n-only update diff -ruN mydns-1.1.0/debian/control mydns-1.2.4/debi

Bug#447712: Package could be non-free in the United Kingdom

2007-10-29 Thread MJ Ray
Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ti, 2007-10-23 kello 09:44 -0500, Steve Greenland kirjoitti: > > But the license on the package itself doesn't make that restriction. > > If I have understood things correctly, in England (and the rest of the > UK?) the copyright is owned by the crown and

Bug#444958: listarchives: please remove pharma spam message

2007-10-02 Thread MJ Ray
Package: listarchives Severity: normal The following message: http://lists.debian.org/debian-apache/2005/05/msg00105.html is spam. Since it predates the addition of the spam-reporting feature to our list archives, though, I cannot use the newer means of reporting this message. This particular

Bug#442032: CPAL (was: Bug#442032: ITP: openproj -- A desktop replacement for Microsoft Project. It is capable of sharing files with Microsoft Project...)

2007-09-15 Thread MJ Ray
Laurent Chretienneau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The CPAL is an OSI approved license. That's informative, but not sufficient to show that *software* under that licence follows the DFSG. (OSI has lawyers advocating licences, while debian looks at software for users.) Would you explain:- - can s

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