[Committee-d] Categories of comments which will (most likely) eventually become issues

[Don Armstrong]

My primary goal behind creating the RSS to email feed was to begin to
get a handle on the types of comments that were being made and what
broad categories they could be assigned to for possible promotion into
issues.

Towards that end, I have a collection of mailboxes kicking around on
my publicly accessible subversion server into which I've been
separating the issues which I think are actually important.

Of these issues, a couple of them are becoming more ripe to begin
actually talking about and discussing with a view to first promote
them to being issues, and then making a concise statement about them:

1. Anti DMCA Segment Confusing
   [anti_dcma_segment_confusing:15]

2. Copyright/Warranty Information on Startup
   [copyright_info_on_startup:13]

3. Dissallowing Illegal things (and the conflict with freedom 0)
   [disallow_illegal_things:11]

4. DRM and allowing authentication/secured tranport
   [drm_allowing_authentication:9]

5. Physical media for source too expensive (10 times your cost)
   [physical_media_for_source_too_expensive:7]

In the above list, the numbers after the colon are the number of
comments which I have assigned to that category; I'm currently about
2/3rds of the way through the comments which have been made in the
past 7 days.

Since what comments are important is just my own opinion, I think you
all should go through the comments in whatever manner makes you
comfortable and start separating them out into your own piles; I
discarded a substantial number of them because I didn't feel they were
appropriate or interesting to me. You'll likely feel differently.

The mailboxes themselves and the full list is available here:
http://svn.donarmstrong.com/don/trunk/projects/gplv3/issue_mailboxes/

svn co http://svn.donarmstrong.com/don/trunk/projects/gplv3/issue_mailboxes
if you want your own copy

$ ls |xargs grep -c From:
60_days_too_short:6
affero_exception:7
aggregate_work_confusing:1
anti_dcma_segment_confusing:15
contract_in_other_locales:1
copyright_info_on_startup:13
disallow_illegal_things:11
drm_allowing_authentication:9
drm_and_freedom_zero:2
dual_licensing_conflicts:1
extend_source_requirement:6
gpl_as_free_software:1
grammar:6
license_approver:1
license_compatibility:1
loopholes:2
make_non_termination_obvious:1
os_exemption_clarification:3
patent_licensing_clarification:9
patent_retaliation:6
physical_media_for_source_too_expensive:7
source_distribution_location_abiguous:3
unlimited_rights_to_run_vs_restrictions_on_running:1
verification_of_source_access:1



Don Armstrong

-- 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.     
 -- Robert Heinlein

http://www.donarmstrong.com              http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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