Re: GPL and command-line libraries

2004-11-02 Thread John Hasler
investment of effort you can invest a similar small amount of effort in writing a Free version of his client and include it with your library, thus destroying his market. -- John Hasler

Re: GPL and command-line libraries

2004-11-02 Thread John Hasler
Måns Rullgård writes: > Actually, copyright law talks a great deal about derivative works, > without ever going to the trouble of defining them... The US statute does so, but US case law defines them fairly well. -- John Hasler

Re: remove me from call*wave

2004-11-09 Thread John Hasler
Henning Makholm writes: > I still wonder what the people posting here are thinking, though. Probably the same thing as the one who emailed me personally (cc'ing debian-user) asking for help with his "AO*L a*rt fi*le" problem. -- John Hasler

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-01 Thread John Hasler
William Ballard writes: > After all, we have Christian Syria and Christian Lebanon out of it. There were Christians in Syria and Lebanon _long_ before the Crusades. -- John Hasler

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-02 Thread John Hasler
William Ballard writes: > The Bible should be in Debian. But the Koran, the Torah, and the Vishnu > texts (name escapes me at the moment) should all be in there too. Debian is not Project Gutenberg. Debian is about _software_. -- John Hasler

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-02 Thread John Hasler
Debian". And while I do not object to bible (or koran, or devil-worship) software, I think that saying that it _should_ be in Debian is excessive. Debian can do very well without religious software. This is obscure specialty stuff. -- John Hasler

Re: Bug#284219: please remove gnu-standards

2004-12-04 Thread John Hasler
Glenn Maynard writes: > gnu-standards is obviously unlikely to be relicensed, and can't be > rewritten Of course it could be rewritten (though a rewrite should be retitled). Standards are ideas, not expression. -- John Hasler

Re: Debian package selection depending on user location/belief/society

2004-12-06 Thread John Hasler
Philippe De Swert writes: > I am just wondering if it is not the responabilty of the actual Debian > user not to violate his local laws. Of course it is. Unfortunately, governments don't generally agree. -- John Hasler

Re: SVG icons

2004-12-09 Thread John Hasler
mean "you can leave this out if you want to". It might be best to not use it at all as it seems to engender some confusion. Note also that the RFC says the the imperatives it defines should be used sparingly. -- John Hasler

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-09 Thread John Hasler
t reason alone. I also haven't seen a convincing argument that they are beneficial. Why don't standard ABIs suffice? -- John Hasler

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-09 Thread John Hasler
x27;s to say that some program isn't relying on the former (buggy) > operation of the library? How could the program do that without being buggy itself? -- John Hasler

Re: Obfuscated source

2004-12-12 Thread John Hasler
Andi writes: > "preferred form for modification" is _only_ a GPL-term and not part of > the SC. The SC is not a legal document. Common sense should suffice to conclude that obfuscated source does not comply with the DFSG. -- John Hasler

Re: add Date: field to Packages files

2004-12-12 Thread John Hasler
Stephen Gran writes: > You have the changelogs. Use them. The changelogs are in the Packages file? -- John Hasler

Re: Why firmware generally won't be Free Software

2004-12-13 Thread John Hasler
verything that differentiates this guy from his competitors may be in the embedded code. -- John Hasler

Re: removing in postrm rc*.d symlinks that I did not create

2004-12-15 Thread John Hasler
Nicolas writes: > I already thought about it, but I fnind it quite confusing when I cannot > run /etc/init.d/foobar by hand as soon as it is not enabled on startup. Your script should check $PRERUNLEVEL. It will be N if you are booting. -- John Hasler

Re: removing in postrm rc*.d symlinks that I did not create

2004-12-15 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Your script should check $PRERUNLEVEL. It will be N if you are booting. That should be $PREVLEVEL. -- John Hasler

Re: removing in postrm rc*.d symlinks that I did not create

2004-12-16 Thread John Hasler
. If you also want to prevent the service from being started on a runlevel change you have to do something else such as checking $0. -- John Hasler

Re: removing in postrm rc*.d symlinks that I did not create

2004-12-16 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > If you also want to prevent the service from being started on a runlevel > change you have to do something else such as checking $0. Init exports RUNLEVEL, PREVLEVEL, and INIT_VERSION. Thus INIT_VERSION will be set if you are booting or changing runlevels. -- John Hasler

Re: dependancy issues

2005-01-02 Thread John Hasler
Josselin Mouette writes: > Why in the world would you then want to install a metapackage if its > selection doesn't suit you? Most users do not understand meta-packages. They decide to "run Gnome" rather than "run KDE" and so they install Gnome. -- John Hasler

Re: partial patches - server application

2005-01-06 Thread John Hasler
Thiemo Seufer writes: > I haven't found an -f option in diff. Look at the info docs. -- John Hasler

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-02-02 Thread John Hasler
y a miniscule fraction of Web pages are Free. I guess that puts Firefox in contrib. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what is /.udev for ?

2005-02-10 Thread John Hasler
Norbert Tretkowski writes: > There's no label saying "if you don't like these wires, remove them". And cars never grow unwanted wires. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what is /.udev for ?

2005-02-10 Thread John Hasler
ot thinking straight. Rm is the tool that we provide for removing things. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what is /.udev for ?

2005-02-10 Thread John Hasler
emselves on we should try to blunt the sharp edges a bit, if possible. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: First line in /etc/hosts

2005-02-13 Thread John Hasler
writing Linux programs don't.) -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#295328: general: Help messages to stderr should be banned

2005-02-14 Thread John Hasler
Justin Pryzby writes: > It occurs to me that help output to stderr is arguably appropriate if an > invalid option is given But '--help' is not an invalid option. I'll have to check my packages. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Bug#295328: general: Help messages to stderr should be banned

2005-02-15 Thread John Hasler
Francesco P. Lovergine writes: > It depends on programs, sometimes the same usage function is used for > either --help or invalid options. Sure, but the output should still be directed correctly. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-17 Thread John Hasler
William Ballard writes: > The exim4 config asks you if you want itty bitty or one monolothic config > file. It offers you the option of doing it the upstream way. Does it tell you which is the upstream way? Most new users won't know. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-17 Thread John Hasler
fferent from > upstream's. I have made similar changes, but I also patched the documentation. Many DDs do not do so, confusing users. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-17 Thread John Hasler
gs are flags for the debconf package configuration system which should have been run during installation at which point it would have set up the config for you after asking you some questions. Either there is a bug or you did something strange. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-20 Thread John Hasler
alter my email configuration. At least make enabling the change a Debconf question. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ...

2005-02-21 Thread John Hasler
Brian Nelson writes: > That's an overstatement. Simply having two architectures (i386 and ppc) > would be enough to reveal nearly all portability bugs. It required several architectures to uncover all of the portability bugs in Chrony. ppc was not one of them. -- John Hasl

Re: Cross-compiling and dist-cc

2005-02-22 Thread John Hasler
_for_ _the_ _same_ _target_ _architecture_ and then compare the binaries. I don't see why they should differ. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any reason why I'm not CCed by bugs of my packages?

2005-02-25 Thread John Hasler
me a couple of times a year. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#297233: ITP: wmansied -- An ANSI/ASCII editor.

2005-02-28 Thread John Hasler
Joe Wreschnig writes: > I don't know what the official standards for the character set and > terminal specifications are... Whatever IBM said they were. I believe they are in the IBM PC Technical Reference Manual: I've got one around here somewhere. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUB

Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo

2005-03-07 Thread John Hasler
t hard to tell the difference between appalling style and deliberate obfuscation. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Restrictive SMTP server

2005-03-12 Thread John Hasler
I fix up the latter in Exim. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Restrictive SMTP server

2005-03-15 Thread John Hasler
ake the necessary adjustments before delivering the mail to my ISP's smarthost. The only change I've ever found necessary, though, is to forge the HELO command used by my MTA when talking to the smarthost. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: arch-specific packages and the new SCC requirements

2005-03-16 Thread John Hasler
onfig is not kernel-specific. It's just a little Perl program that edits some PPP files. While I have never tried it, I see no reason why it wouldn't work on Solaris or BSD. I'm quite surprised that the Hurd still doesn't support PPP. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-22 Thread John Hasler
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt writes: > I'd like to know if anyone cares about using these binary signatures I do. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-23 Thread John Hasler
Marc Haber writes: > So, most of the DD's do not care about security at all. I think that DD's do not use dpkg-sig and debsigs because they believe them to be hard to use and not supported by the infrastructure or by policy. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-23 Thread John Hasler
Olaf van der Spek writes: > Security is more than package signatures. What is your specific proposal? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-23 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > I think that DD's do not use dpkg-sig and debsigs because they believe > them to be hard to use and not supported by the infrastructure or by > policy. Marc Haber writes: > dpkg-sig is harly "hard to use". Please re-read what I wrote. -- John Hasler -

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread John Hasler
Erinn Clark writes: > Surely flaming people on mailing lists as a way to get things done is not > something people want to encourage in NMs... right? Right. After all, as we all know, no DD would ever do such a thing. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intel notebooks for needy developers in developing countries

2005-12-10 Thread John Hasler
e pointless than it already is. I don't see why we need to concern ourselves about it, though. Intel has lawyers. If they have to disqualify some candidates for legal reasons they can do so without our help. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Intel notebooks for needy developers in developing countries

2005-12-11 Thread John Hasler
ncern ourselves about it. BTW the US is not the only country with such laws. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-28 Thread John Hasler
and uses '.' where you would use ',' in numbers. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-13 Thread John Hasler
o do so, but > in my experience Ubuntu developers have been very cooperative when they > have been approached. So I don't see a big problem. I don't either. After all, most users don't file bug reports, and Ubuntu is (in my view), a user. It would be nice to have their feedback

Re: [ad-hominem construct deleted]

2006-01-16 Thread John Hasler
sent in Ubuntu sounds like spam to me... It doesn't to me. I am pleased when downstream distributions notify me that they are using my packages. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ad-hominem construct deleted]

2006-01-17 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > I am pleased when downstream distributions notify me that they are using > my packages. mdz writes: > Have you ever received such a notification? Yes. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-18 Thread John Hasler
g is likely to be present in the corresponding Debian package. If you are wrong once in a while it's hardly the end of the world. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Derived distributions and the Maintainer: field

2006-01-19 Thread John Hasler
Ubuntu should be sorting out whether such problems are present in Debian > before sending them to the Debian maintainer. Ubuntu should certainly first try to make sure the problem is not theirs. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new mplayer 1.0pre7try2 package

2006-01-21 Thread John Hasler
Andrew writes: > Aren't we in a similar situation with other stuff that is in main > already? rsync springs to mind. Don't forget the Linux kernel. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-23 Thread John Hasler
is, or is it just libel? > ...what's stopping us from officially discouraging Ubuntu's existence? The fact that most of us are interested in cooperation or at least peaceful coexistence. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-18 Thread John Hasler
and/or redistribute them. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-15 Thread John Hasler
Pierre Habouzit writes: > I strongly oppose to such an expulsion. So do I. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

what is Debian's mailing address?

1997-12-21 Thread John Hasler
o response. Can someone who is not going on vacation please supply the appropriate address? John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-25 Thread John Hasler
e. "Thin-skinned" people often react to hostility by simply going away. Often, they do so even when the hostility was not directed at them. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-25 Thread John Hasler
t work, go fix it or I'll be > REAL angry and how you dare you release such a [EMAIL PROTECTED]' kind). That sort of hostility is much easier to deal with calmly than hostility from fellow developers. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &

Re: Slightly Off Topic: Laptops for Debian

2005-01-25 Thread John Hasler
from easily > scratchable/dentable/etc. aluminum. Sounds like a good reason to buy a used PowerBook. "Durable plastic" is an oxymoron. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Depends: and commands used in maintainer scripts

2005-01-26 Thread John Hasler
ded) will generally be considered a bug, but will not necessarily render a package unsuitable for distribution. Guidelines denoted by may (or optional) are truly optional and adherence is left to the maintainer's discretion. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Bug#292183: ITP: gtkpizza -- Pizza takeaway managment program written in gtk

2005-01-27 Thread John Hasler
languages. Such is the case here. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

2005-01-29 Thread John Hasler
xecutable on itself into > /usr/bin/ You are correct. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

2005-01-29 Thread John Hasler
Jochen Voss writes: > Any references for this? I was a little bit disappointed that the FHS > was so unclear about /usr/bin and I do not know where else to look. While the FHS is not as explicit as it might be, with the application of a bit of common sense it is sufficiently clear. --

Re: Should Debian use lsb init-functions?

2005-03-26 Thread John Hasler
Thomas Hood wrote: > Should Debian initscripts use lsb init-functions? Where can we find these functions? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why allow broken packages to get all the way to mirrors?

2005-04-02 Thread John Hasler
. Why not check to see if > the food is rotten before it gets to the consumer? That's what Unstable is for. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: acenic firmware rewrite

2005-04-09 Thread John Hasler
w to handle the development in such a way the resulting > firmware can be released under a free license without any legal risks. Unless you've signed an NDA you're fine. Just do it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: acenic firmware rewrite

2005-04-09 Thread John Hasler
free > firmware? As long as they don't copy any protected code you'll be fine. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: acenic firmware rewrite

2005-04-10 Thread John Hasler
te the IBM BIOS... Compaq used the "clean room" technique because a) the BIOS requirements are such that many problems have only one solution and so Compaq's code was certain to be very similar (or even identical) to IBM's in many places and b) they expected IBM to sue and want

Re: All GPL'ed programs have to go to non-free

2005-04-14 Thread John Hasler
Matthew Garrett writes: > In general, the law doesn't allow us to modify the license attached to a > piece of software. That has nothing to do with creating a derivative of a license for use elsewhere. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &

Re: What do you win by moving things to non-free?

2005-04-16 Thread John Hasler
small. For nearly everyone else software is free if you don't have to pay for it. Should we then package everything that won't get us sued? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: definition of "use"

2005-04-26 Thread John Hasler
. US copyright law grants specific rights to the owner of a copy of a piece of software. Better to be more specific, though. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: transcode

2005-04-30 Thread John Hasler
Transcode is not in Debian because the codecs are not DFSG-compliant. Look at <http://apt-get.org> for an unofficial package. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ubuntu and its "appropriation" of Debian maintainers

2005-04-30 Thread John Hasler
/mysql-query-browser > They have "Adam Majer is responsible for this Debian package" with a > link to Debian's QA. For me they have: "John Hasler is the maintainer of the following distribution packages: Ubuntu Linux :: hoary :: pppconfig" > Anyway, the bottom line i

Re: Debian AMD64 Archive Move

2005-05-08 Thread John Hasler
should examine the license in every single package. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dependency on base package adduser ?

2005-05-10 Thread John Hasler
Russ Allbery writes: > So far as I know, a base package (section base) has no particular special > meaning from a dependency perspective, although I believe that section > may be reserved for required packages (but am not sure). There are optional packages in base. -- John Hasler

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-05-31 Thread John Hasler
They also resulted from deliberate policies of attempting to lock-in customers with "differentiation". -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-05-31 Thread John Hasler
s why they are generally frowned > upon. I agree that they may have drawbacks, but I don't believe that they can cause the sort of damage that the Unix wars caused. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: C++ ABI change for etch -- freeze unstable for all C++ libs with changed or new sonames

2005-06-05 Thread John Hasler
are assuming that everyone has been paying close attention to Ubuntu and it's activities. While I have the impression that many Debian "senior developers" are involved with it, I can name only one who I am sure is and one who I am sure isn't. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Bug#311795: ITP: rast -- A full text search system

2005-06-05 Thread John Hasler
NOKUBI Takatsugu writes: > BTW, there is the "n-gram" word in libdigest-nilsimsa-perl package's > description without explain of the word. Where it helps to render the description incomprehensible. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: New Nokia device is Debian-based?

2005-06-06 Thread John Hasler
do most of the CEOs of the pro-patent companies). They believe that the OSS companies can just pay the royalties and all will be fine. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New Nokia device is Debian-based?

2005-06-06 Thread John Hasler
eased into the public domain? It is not possible for a work to be both "public domain" and "educational use only". Do you mean that Microsoft has patented an invention that was published in the referenced work, or that they are infringing the copyright? -- John Hasler -- To UN

Re: New Nokia device is Debian-based?

2005-06-06 Thread John Hasler
At about the time that it sued IBM it changed its name to "The SCO Group" and now calls itself SCO. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-07 Thread John Hasler
t;/etc/init.d/networking stop", which is all > that you are proposing. Roberto C. Sanchez writes: > I agree. I rather like being able to configure run levels to my liking. Why would defaulting to something other than the current flat arrangement prevent you from configuring your ru

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-07 Thread John Hasler
ns expect more runlevels. It's the _lack_ that confuses them. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-07 Thread John Hasler
Roberto C. Sanchez writes: > Where, pray tell, is a newbie going to learn about [runlevels]? a) By having used Red Hat. b) By reading up on Linux before trying to use it (yes, some people _do_ that). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-09 Thread John Hasler
you from continuing to customize your runlevels. We are mererly proposing to change the default, not to impose anything on you. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-09 Thread John Hasler
Wouter Verhelst writes: > In practice, many third-party applications will make assumptions about > the availability and configuration of runlevels... Seems to me that the most likely such assumption is that the runlevels are Red Hat-like. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-13 Thread John Hasler
the suggestion that the default runlevels be what most people expect them to be. And it _does_ come with "predefined options and settings": ones unique to Debian. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-14 Thread John Hasler
Humberto Massa Guimarães writes: > But is non-rebranded Firefox *really* distributable by us under GPL#6, > "no further restrictions"? Yes. Copyright and trademark are completely orthogonal. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-14 Thread John Hasler
what runlevels are and how to use them but have no idea how to change them. The advice to boot to runlevel 3 to fix X is commonly seen even on debian-user. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-14 Thread John Hasler
ure that package names infringe. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-15 Thread John Hasler
Peter Samuelson writes: > I'm curious to know where you got that impression. I just reread the > DFSG and it makes no mention of copyrights, trademarks or patents. The legislative history of the DFSG makes it quite clear that it was only intended to apply to copyrights. -- John Hasl

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-15 Thread John Hasler
Bernardo Arlandis Mañó writes: > Even when a package is free that doesn't mean you can name it using a > trademark name, that would be an illegal use of a trademark. it is not at all clear that that is true. A trademark owner does not have anywhere near the rights of a copyright owne

Re: Mozilla Foundation Trademarks

2005-06-16 Thread John Hasler
inced that any of these constitute trademark infringement. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-17 Thread John Hasler
Luca writes: > Under gnome you can find gpppkill and gpppon, but they can't manage > provider setting. Gpppon doesn't need to manage settings. It uses the same settings as pon/poff, which can be managed with pppconfig. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-17 Thread John Hasler
y what it is being claimed we may not do without explicit permission[1]. [1] I doubt that trademark law reaches that far, but I am not a lawyer. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla Foundation Trademarks

2005-06-17 Thread John Hasler
related parts and services) using that mark. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla Foundation Trademarks

2005-06-17 Thread John Hasler
let's accept the "arrangement" and move on. There is no DFSG problem here even if we do accept the notion that the DFSG applies to trademarks. -- John Hasler (IANAL, IAADD) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla Foundation Trademarks

2005-06-18 Thread John Hasler
Eric Dorland writes: > If we don't need the "arrangement", why exactly would we accept it > anyway? Because they want it and it costs us nothing to give it to them. They are our friends. Let's accommodate them where we can. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

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