Re: Regarding copyright assignment to FSF

2021-08-13 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 12:18:20PM +1000, Damien Zammit wrote: > On 11/8/21 11:01 pm, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > It would be interesting to consider dropping the copyright assignment > > requirement for Hurd/Mach/MiG. For what remains primarily a hobby > > project, this looks to me like a

Re: Regarding copyright assignment to FSF

2021-08-13 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> On 2021-08-12 12:18:20 +1000, Damien Zammit wrote: > On 11/8/21 11:01 pm, Ludovic Courtès wrote: This seem somewhat off-topic for the lists, so I’m open to suggestions on what other forum to use (should anyone wish to continue this thread.) My suggestion is, as

Debian GNU/Hurd 2021 released!

2021-08-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2021. This is a snapshot of Debian "sid" at the time of the stable Debian "bullseye" release (August 2021), so it is mostly based on the same sources. It is not an official Debian release, but it is

Re: Regarding copyright assignment to FSF

2021-08-13 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
Maxime Devos writes: > Upgrading the GPLv2-only code might be dificult if multiple people hold > the copyright, so for the GPLv2-only code, it might be a good idea to still > require copyright assignment. When we did it for Mercurial, going from GPLv2 only to or later took years and a *lot* of

Re: Regarding copyright assignment to FSF

2021-08-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Maxime Devos, le ven. 13 août 2021 15:42:37 +0200, a ecrit: > so for the GPLv2-only code, it might be a good idea to still > require copyright assignment. The GPLv2-only code is essentially the pfinet stack from Linux, for which we don't have any assignment anyway. But again, this is getting

Re: Regarding copyright assignment to FSF

2021-08-13 Thread Maxime Devos
Damien Zammit schreef op do 12-08-2021 om 12:18 [+1000]: > Hi Ludo, I'm not Ludo, but here's my response anyway. (I'm interested in doing some small and larger things with the Hurd, but I keep being occupied by other things and I'm having a hard time understanding the inner workings ...) > On

Re: Debian Hurd release this week-end

2021-08-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sergey Bugaev, le ven. 13 août 2021 10:07:31 +0300, a ecrit: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 10:05 Sergey Bugaev <[1]buga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Perhaps "multiple security improvements" deserve a mention? > > Oh, or is it not going to make it into the release because of the unfinished > copyright

Re: Debian Hurd release this week-end

2021-08-13 Thread Sergey Bugaev
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 10:05 Sergey Bugaev wrote: > Perhaps "multiple security improvements" deserve a mention? > Oh, or is it not going to make it into the release because of the unfinished copyright assignment? :( Sergey >

Re: Debian Hurd release this week-end

2021-08-13 Thread Sergey Bugaev
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 01:25 Samuel Thibault wrote: > So as usual, along the Debian release, we will have a Debian Hurd > release. I have drafted the following list of news since the 2019 > release: <...> > Is there some other big line that I am forgetting? > Perhaps "multiple security