discuss: getting sponsorship and marketing LDP
Subject:
Re: getting sponsorship and marketing LDP
From:
Guylhem Aznar ####@####.####
Date:
7 Jan 2004 21:43:20 -0000
Message-Id: <20040106084009.06f516c4.athome@externe.net>
Hello,
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 15:49:36 -0800
David Lawyer ####@####.#### wrote:
> It's very sad to realize that the LDP has been coopted to distribute
> documentation for non-free software. The GNU project's goal is to
> create all the software people need as free software. Stallman said
> something to the effect that if one can't run their business with free
> software, they should find another business. This was after Guylhem
> introduced me to Stallman at a Linux Expo in Montreal. But I think GNU
> documentation goes too far by not even allowing the discussion of
> non-free software.
I share your opinion. I think we should be free to discuss non-free software,
but that we should not distribute documentation focusing on non free software.
If the software is not free, the authors can certainly take care of their own
documentation.
Personally, I would like to see these documents removed or at least distributed
in a separate non-free tree (à la debian), but I understand most people feel
otherwise.
> In general, the companies that sell the software should also document
> it. Volunteers shouldn't be doing it. Why wouldn't a volunteer prefer
> to document free software instead?
I wholeheartely agree.
> The LDP should not become an organization that companies utilize fo
> their own personal gain by coopting LDP to distribute their documentation
> for free and thus promote their non-free software.
I think we should not accept companies funds unless we can agree with them what
the money will be used for and if it doesn't go against our principles.
Accepting money to fund non existing documentation for free software, or to fund
documentation review/enhancement is ok, accepting money to write documentation
on non free software is not.
In my wildest dreams, volunteers here would receive money from sponsors to keep
writing their documentation. I'm still hoping some e-gov free software
initiative in europe will set apart some budget for that in the future (why not?
they pay commercial companies to write non free documentation!)
It's only a matter of ethics- we should explain what we do, which money we
accept and why we do it.
Best regards,
Guylhem
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<type 'exceptions.IOError'> | Python 2.5.2: /usr/bin/python
Fri Jul 5 09:24:26 2024 |
A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of
function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred.
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/main.py in main() |
424
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425 if path is not None:
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426 main_path(path)
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427 else:
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428 main_form()
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| global main_form = <function main_form at 0x8f4cc6c> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/main.py in main_form() |
378 except ImportError:
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379 die(ctxt, "Invalid command")
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380 module.do(ctxt)
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381
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382 def main():
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| module = <module 'commands.showmsg' from '/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/commands/showmsg.pyc'>, module.do = <function do at 0x8fc4374>, global ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 47, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'} |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/commands/showmsg.py in do(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 47, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}) |
18 write(html('msg-pager') % ctxt)
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19 write('<hr>')
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20 sub_showmsg(ctxt, ctxt[MSGNUM])
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21 write('<hr>')
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22 write(html('msg-pager') % ctxt)
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| global sub_showmsg = <function sub_showmsg at 0x8f4c1ec>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 47, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, global MSGNUM = 'msgnum' |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in sub_showmsg(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 47, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, msgnum=6389) |
229 format_timestamp(ctxt, ctxt)
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230 write(html('msg-header') % ctxt)
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231 rec_showpart(ctxt, msg, 0)
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232 write(html('msg-footer') % ctxt)
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233 ctxt.pop()
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| global rec_showpart = <function rec_showpart at 0x8f4c1b4>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 47, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, msg = <email.message.Message instance at 0x8fdd9cc> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in rec_showpart(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 47, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0x8fdd9cc>, partnum=1) |
205 else:
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206 for p in part.get_payload():
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207 partnum = rec_showpart(ctxt, p, partnum+1)
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208 else:
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209 write(html('msg-sep') % ctxt)
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| partnum = 1, global rec_showpart = <function rec_showpart at 0x8f4c1b4>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 47, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, p = <email.message.Message instance at 0x8fddccc> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in rec_showpart(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 47, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0x8fddccc>, partnum=2) |
208 else:
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209 write(html('msg-sep') % ctxt)
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210 sub_showpart(ctxt, part)
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211 return partnum
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212
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| global sub_showpart = <function sub_showpart at 0x8f4c144>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 47, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part = <email.message.Message instance at 0x8fddccc> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in sub_showpart(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 47, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0x8fddccc>) |
164 type = ctxt[TYPE] = part.get_content_type()
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165 ctxt[FILENAME] = part.get_filename()
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166 template = html('msg-' + type.replace('/', '-'))
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167 if not template:
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168 template = html('msg-' + type[:type.find('/')])
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| global template = <function template at 0x8f44e9c>, global html = <function html at 0x8f44ed4>, type = 'application/pgp-signature', type.replace = <built-in method replace of str object at 0x8fe3870> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in html(name='msg-application-pgp-signature') |
40
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41 def html(name):
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42 return template(name + '.html')
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43
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44 def xml(name):
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| global template = <function template at 0x8f44e9c>, name = 'msg-application-pgp-signature' |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in template(filename='msg-application-pgp-signature.html') |
31 except IOError:
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32 if not _template_zipfile:
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33 _template_zipfile = zipfile.ZipFile(sys.argv[0])
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34 try:
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35 f = _template_zipfile.open(n).read()
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| global _template_zipfile = None, global zipfile = <module 'zipfile' from '/usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.pyc'>, zipfile.ZipFile = <class zipfile.ZipFile at 0x8edda7c>, global sys = <module 'sys' (built-in)>, sys.argv = ['-c', '/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20'] |
| /usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.py in __init__(self=<zipfile.ZipFile instance at 0x8f5aecc>, file='-c', mode='r', compression=0, allowZip64=False) |
337 self.filename = file
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338 modeDict = {'r' : 'rb', 'w': 'wb', 'a' : 'r+b'}
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339 self.fp = open(file, modeDict[mode])
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340 else:
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341 self._filePassed = 1
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| self = <zipfile.ZipFile instance at 0x8f5aecc>, self.fp = None, builtin open = <built-in function open>, file = '-c', modeDict = {'a': 'r+b', 'r': 'rb', 'w': 'wb'}, mode = 'r' |
<type 'exceptions.IOError'>: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '-c'
args =
(2, 'No such file or directory')
errno =
2
filename =
'-c'
message =
''
strerror =
'No such file or directory'
