Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-06 Thread Dalibor Topic
help make the Java application you care about work (better). See http://jroller.com/page/dgilbert?entry=sven_de_genius , http://kennke.org/blog/?p=5 and http://kennke.org/blog/?p=7 for a few applications that are currently being liberated from dependencies on proprietary Java implementations. che

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-04 Thread Dalibor Topic
particular handholding from someone else to figure out what free software is, given how many bright people work over there on free software already. ;) cheers, dalibor topic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Dalibor Topic
Erast Benson wrote: On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 22:22 +0100, Dalibor Topic wrote: Or you could just persuade the copyright holders to make all of OpenSolaris code that you use dual licensed with the GPL, and many of your problems are gone. Effectively, might happen that once SUN released all

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Dalibor Topic
name like gnusolaris.org, Solaris being a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, it seems like you are asking for legal problems, either way. I'm a bit curious, what's your business plan like? cheers, dalibor topic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Dalibor Topic
tter) the CDDL works. This is a debian development mailing list, and not an open source software licensing teach-in. cheers, dalibor topic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: more tolerant licensing for Debian infrastructure

2005-11-03 Thread Dalibor Topic
better or worse, the CDDL is GPL-incompatible by an explicit choice of its drafters. That's not necessarily something undesirable for its drafters, from a few conversations I had with people involved in that process. cheers, dalibor topic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Dalibor Topic
Erast Benson wrote: any others ideas? (c) Have whoever is in charge of the CDDL remove the parts from CDDL that make it GPL incompatible in the next revision of CDDL. That should most of your problems at once. cheers, dalibor topic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Dalibor Topic
that code seriously, and to argue your points accordingly. cheers, dalibor topic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Dalibor Topic
improving Sun's software and systems." from the SLA's section on restrictions does not really sound like something I'd be interested in getting my hands on, gratis or not. cheers, dalibor topic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: old question with new status? Sun-Java in Debian non-free?

2005-10-27 Thread Dalibor Topic
op that sun sells for solaris and their own linux distro. It includes a bunch of proprietary apps, afaik. The article says Sun will make that gnome-based desktop available for other linux distributions than their own. cheers, dalibor topic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libsvn-javahl: call for help

2005-09-20 Thread Dalibor Topic
ll be dropped, as, more than under-maintained, it's broken and > breaking the rest of subversion. Volunteered, been on IRC on #debian-svn, submitted a Kaffe bug about it, and a proposal how to fix. Thanks for reporting it! cheers, dalibor topic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-08 Thread Dalibor Topic
Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:58:32PM +0200, Yorick Cool wrote: >> >>>On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 03:55:56PM +0200, Dalibor Topic wrote: > > >>>>>The application of the

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-08 Thread Dalibor Topic
Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 03:55:56PM +0200, Dalibor Topic wrote: Sven Luther wrote: Notice that we already accepted a CDDLed program in debian, namely the star packages which comes with this clause : 9. MISCELLANEOUS. [snip] The application of the United Nations

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-08 Thread Dalibor Topic
org/s/star/news/4.html and the license change did not seem to have been discussed on debian-legal. The discussions on CDDL in 2005-01 seem to have petered out inconclusively. cheers, dalibor topic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

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

2003-12-18 Thread Dalibor Topic
at shall not be named GNU/Next one that shall not be named GNU/Other one that shall not be named Loosely abbreviated: GNU/Fotsnoben GNU/Notsnoben GNU/Ootsnoben yeah, sounds very mystic. Probably means elk spit in some nordic language, too. I vote for that. cheers, dalibor topic