Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-14 Thread Brian T. Sniffen
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have little patience for superstitious beliefs, and less still for > people who claim to be defending the tender feelings of the ignorant. But why use names correlated with evil when other options are available which interfere less with Debian's go

Re: Advices on choosing a documentation license for an upstream project

2003-11-04 Thread Brian T. Sniffen
knutclient) > Upstream developer Team of NUT > ... > --- > References: > - NUT upstream: http://www.exploits.org/nut/ > - NUT Sid packages: > http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=nut&searchon=names&subword=1&version=unstable&release=all > -

Re: vrms and contrib installers

2003-09-02 Thread Brian T. Sniffen
ware they install. > > What do you think? I think that's insane. The installers are in contrib because they are free software -- small installer programs -- which require non-free software -- big useful non-free programs -- to run. They probably should clean up after themselves when --purged, but I can see good arguments against that as well. -Brian -- Brian T. Sniffen[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.evenmere.org/~bts/

Re: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken

2003-08-27 Thread Brian T. Sniffen
Debian. I use tmda, but not in challenge-response mode. I find it useful for its cryptographic hash-address system and the autowhitelisting code. -Brian -- Brian T. Sniffen[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.evenmere.org/~bts/

Re: Debian Weekly News - August 19th, 2003

2003-08-24 Thread Brian T. Sniffen
What I'm referring to is the excerpts of C and E-Lisp source in those manuals. They're clearly both documentation and software, even if you don't believe that text can be both documentation and software. I don't believe even the non-optional parts of the GFDL can be found DFSG-free (as a software

Re: Debian Weekly News - August 19th, 2003

2003-08-24 Thread Brian T. Sniffen
"Marco d'Itri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Aug 22, "Brian T. Sniffen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Additionally, whether the DFSG should apply to documentation in Debian > >is not relevant to the survey, which asks whether th

Re: Debian Weekly News - August 19th, 2003

2003-08-22 Thread Brian T. Sniffen
y, which asks whether the GFDL complies with the DFSG: we can deal with the insanity of whether this software over here is or is not software later, but figuring out whether the GFDL is a DFSG-free licence for software is also important. That's what the survey's asking about. -Brian

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

2003-08-01 Thread Brian T. Sniffen
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> nethack is the only game which comes to mind which does this, and I think it >> should probably be changed to keep the saved game in the user's home >> directory. This was clearly done in order to try to pre

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free...

2003-04-25 Thread Brian T. Sniffen
>> As far as I am concerned, I have no desire to have ReiserFS distributed >> for free by anyone who removes the GNU manifesto or similar expressions >> from Stallman's work (or my own) and redistributes it. It is simply a >> matter of respect that is due the author. > > Respect is due; but it

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-22 Thread Brian T. Sniffen
x27;t GPL-compatible. On the other hand, if he left the license free and simply asked that distributors not make such changes, that would be free and at least somewhat reasonable. -Brian -- Brian T. Sniffen[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.evenmere.org/~bts/