Re: [PATCH] epoll: stop comparing pointers with 0 in self-test app

2012-12-20 Thread Daniel Hazelton
I don't see anything obviously wrong here... Reviewed-By: Daniel Hazelton On 12/20/2012 02:11 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- tools/testing/selftests/epoll/test_epoll.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/self

Re: [PATCH] UAPI: Fix tools/vm/page-types.c

2012-10-23 Thread Daniel Hazelton
-page-flags.h: No such file or directory Reported-by: Daniel Hazelton Signed-off-by: David Howells cc: Fengguang Wu --- tools/vm/page-types.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/vm/page-types.c b/tools/vm/page-types.c index cd1b03e..b76edf2 100644 --- a

tools/vm build fails

2012-10-22 Thread Daniel Hazelton
After doing any build in the kernel (last attempt was an allmodconfig) I've tried to build the 'vm' tool in tools/vm and the build fails - looks to be fallout from the uapi header work. [madman@localhost tools]$ make V=1 vm make -C vm/ make[1]: Entering directory `/home/madman/sources/linux-2.6

Re: [PATCH 6/6] staging: ccg: print MAC addresses via %pM

2012-07-06 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On 07/06/2012 11:32 AM, Kyungmin Park wrote: > Acked-by: Kyungmin Park > > On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Andy Shevchenko > wrote: >> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko >> Cc: Kyungmin Park >> --- >> drivers/staging/ccg/ccg.c |8 ++-- >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) >>

Re: 2.6.24.2: 4KSTACKS + pcdrw + dm + mount -> stack overflow: ide-cd related? dm-related?

2008-02-26 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Tuesday 26 February 2008 06:10:34 Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Jan Kara wrote: > > Yes, exactly two of them. One is non-trivial to get rid of - it's > > used for encoding of filename before we write it, > > Why can't we do just > > > > UDF: Optimize stack usage > > Signed-off-by:

Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

2008-02-10 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Sunday 10 February 2008 06:20:45 Alan Cox wrote: > > Why? Because the pre-processor is what is including any GPL'd code in my > > application and expanding any macros. That is a purely mechanical process > > and > > And its not pirating Windows because Norton Ghost put Microsoft copyright > mate

Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

2008-02-09 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Sunday 10 February 2008 00:43:49 Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > > > > > It makes no difference if you > > > > > distribute the GPL library with it or not. > > > > > > > > If you do not distribute the GPL library, the library is simply being > > > > used in the intended, ordinary way. Yo

Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

2008-02-09 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Saturday 09 February 2008 23:50:17 Marcel Holtmann wrote: > > > It makes no difference if you > > > distribute the GPL library with it or not. > > > > If you do not distribute the GPL library, the library is simply being > > used in the intended, ordinary way. You do not need to agree to, nor c

Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

2008-02-08 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Friday 08 February 2008 16:36:37 Alan Cox wrote: > > In other words "EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL" isn't his idea of "a good legal idea", > > but people ignoring this and doing things that circumvent this will, > > eventually, have problems with the people who hold the copyright on the > > code. (In additi

Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

2008-02-08 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Friday 08 February 2008 14:08:21 David Newall wrote: > I explained something poorly: > > Now, Alan has made a big issue over numerous legal opinions he has > > received, but he's been completely coy in the details. > > The point I wanted to make is that a few people have said that lawyers > say

Re: [BUG] 2.6.24 refuses to boot - ATA problem?

2008-02-03 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Sunday 03 February 2008 12:36:33 Jeff Garzik wrote: > Daniel Hazelton wrote: > > On Saturday 02 February 2008 18:40:55 Chris Rankin wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have tried to boot a 2.6.24 kernel on my 1 GHz Coppermine / 512 MB RAM > >> PC. (This i

Re: [PATCH] Improve Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt v2

2008-02-02 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Sunday 03 February 2008 00:03:10 Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 07:52:37PM -0500, Daniel Hazelton wrote: > > On Saturday 02 February 2008 19:22:49 Greg KH wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 04:44:57PM +0200, Heikki Orsila wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: [PATCH] Improve Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt v2

2008-02-02 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Saturday 02 February 2008 19:22:49 Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 04:44:57PM +0200, Heikki Orsila wrote: > > @@ -145,6 +145,10 @@ as small as possible, and that all potential > > interfaces are tested as well as they can be (unused interfaces are > > pretty much impossible to test for

Re: [BUG] 2.6.24 refuses to boot - ATA problem?

2008-02-02 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Saturday 02 February 2008 18:40:55 Chris Rankin wrote: > Hi, > > I have tried to boot a 2.6.24 kernel on my 1 GHz Coppermine / 512 MB RAM > PC. (This is without the nmi_watchdog=1 option.) However, the ATA layer is > failing to initialise: > > Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type me

Re: Various Errors with recent GIT

2008-02-01 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Friday 01 February 2008 23:42:47 Gabriel C wrote: > Daniel Hazelton wrote: > > Another problem is one I wasn't able to find any kind of trigger for, > > other than just running XChat. Every so often XChat would seem to freeze > > - but if run from the command line,

Various Errors with recent GIT

2008-02-01 Thread Daniel Hazelton
In a recent (haven't tested the latest git, but I have tested one pulled down 1/29 - I think it's 24e1c13) I see the following errors when the AES crypto module is loaded: [ 27.786935] aes_x86_64: Unknown symbol crypto_it_tab [ 27.786984] aes_x86_64: Unknown symbol crypto_aes_set_key [ 27.78

Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

2008-01-29 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 19:46:06 Måns Rullgård wrote: > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:25:22PM +, Måns Rullgård wrote: > >> Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 04:22:45PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > >> >> Hello! > >>

Re: 2.6.24-rc8: iwl3945 gets stuck

2008-01-22 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Tuesday 22 January 2008 17:15:42 John W. Linville wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 09:54:11PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > If I put some heavy load on the iwl3945, then the network connection > > gets stuck after a some time. To fix it I have to reload the module. > > Can you quantify this a

Re: 2.6.24-rc7, intel audio: alsa doesn't say a beep

2008-01-15 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Tuesday 15 January 2008 05:08:45 Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:03:22 -0500, > > Daniel Hazelton wrote: > > On Monday 14 January 2008 06:04:20 Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > > > > > > Could this have anything to do with the following mess

Re: 2.6.24-rc7, intel audio: alsa doesn't say a beep

2008-01-12 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Saturday 12 January 2008 04:41:21 Harald Dunkel wrote: > Takashi Iwai wrote: > > At Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:02:53 +0100, > > > > Harald Dunkel wrote: > >> Takashi Iwai wrote: > >>> Hm... Just to be sure, try the patch below. It's a clean up patch > >>> that I'd like to apply later. > >> > >> Sorry

Re: rt73usb: support for wireless in Kohjinsha subnotebook

2007-10-23 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 17:27:07 Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 15:41 -0400, Daniel Hazelton wrote: > > On Tuesday 23 October 2007 14:54:54 Dan Williams wrote: > > > On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 13:07 -0400, Daniel Hazelton wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 23 Octo

Re: rt73usb: support for wireless in Kohjinsha subnotebook

2007-10-23 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 14:54:54 Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 13:07 -0400, Daniel Hazelton wrote: > > On Tuesday 23 October 2007 10:05:12 Dan Williams wrote: > > > On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 00:00 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > Hi! > > &

Re: rt73usb: support for wireless in Kohjinsha subnotebook

2007-10-23 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 10:05:12 Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 00:00 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > > > Yes, I'm quite sure. There's MODULE_LICENCE("GPL"), IIRC. > > > > > > > > That doesn't say much, some manufacturers add that line to their > > > > driver just to pr

Re: rt73usb: support for wireless in Kohjinsha subnotebook

2007-10-22 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Monday 22 October 2007 17:52:57 Ivo van Doorn wrote: > On Monday 22 October 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > > > This device is NOT a Ralink USB wifi adapter! > > > > > > > > > > Get the windows driver in this link and see for yourself. > > > > > http://www.conitech.it/conitech/ita/ri

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-17 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Monday 17 September 2007 02:43:50 Can E. Acar wrote: > Daniel Hazelton wrote: > > On Sunday 16 September 2007 23:00:09 Can E. Acar wrote: > > [snip] > > >> Theo summarized the latest situation here, some days ago: > >> > >> http://marc.info/?l=ope

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Sunday 16 September 2007 23:00:09 Can E. Acar wrote: > Daniel Hazelton wrote: > > On Sunday 16 September 2007 14:48:47 Can E. Acar wrote: > > [snip] > > >> First, these developers got questionable advice from senior Linux kernel > >> developers, and SLFC (whi

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Sunday 16 September 2007 16:39:26 Hannah Schroeter wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:59:09PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 11:48:47AM -0700, Can E. Acar wrote: > >>... > >> First, these developers got questionable advice from senior Linux kernel > >> developers,

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Sunday 16 September 2007 14:48:47 Can E. Acar wrote: > On Sunday 16 September 2007 15:23:25 Daniel Hazelton wrote: > > On Sunday 16 September 2007 05:17:53 J.C. Roberts wrote: > >> On Sunday 16 September 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> > J.C. Roberts wrote: >

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Sunday 16 September 2007 05:17:53 J.C. Roberts wrote: > On Sunday 16 September 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > J.C. Roberts wrote: > > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=118857712529898&w=2 > > > > Link with outdated info. > > > > > http://madwifi.org/browser/branches/ath5k > > > > Link with ou

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-04 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Tuesday 04 September 2007 15:44:31 Michael Poole wrote: > Chris Friesen writes: > > Daniel Hazelton wrote: > >> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 09:27:02 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > >>>Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>>>US Copyright

Re: GPL weasels and the atheros stink

2007-09-04 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Tuesday 04 September 2007 11:10:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:23:37 PDT, David Schwartz said: > > > Wrong - I said "You can't complain about Person A doing X when > > > you let Person > > > B do X without complaint". > > > > Yes, I can. There is no inconsistency between ac

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-04 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Tuesday 04 September 2007 09:27:02 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > US Copyright law. A copyright holder, regardless of what license he/she > > may have released the work under, can still revoke the license for a > > specifi

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-04 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Tuesday 04 September 2007 04:50:34 James Bruce wrote: > Daniel Hazelton wrote: > > On Monday 03 September 2007 14:26:29 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > >> Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> The fact > >>> remains that the pe

Re: GPL weasels and the atheros stink

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Monday 03 September 2007 20:23:37 David Schwartz wrote: > > Wrong - I said "You can't complain about Person A doing X when > > you let Person > > B do X without complaint". > > Yes, I can. There is no inconsistency between acting in one case and > failing to act in another. We need not act in ev

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Monday 03 September 2007 15:33:01 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I hate to belabor the point, but you seem to be making the mistake of > > "The license applies to the copyright holder" > > Of course not. I'll

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Monday 03 September 2007 14:26:29 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The fact > > remains that the person making a work available under *ANY* form of > > copyright > > license has the right to revoke said grant of lic

Re: GPL weasels and the atheros stink

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Monday 03 September 2007 13:18:35 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Then go yell at Mr. Floeter. The code is dual-licensed and he put > > BSD-License > > only code in it. Because that's the *EXACT* *SAME* thing you're

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Monday 03 September 2007 05:48:00 David Schwartz wrote: > > Mr. Floeter *CAN* request that his code be removed from said fork > > - his code > > is solely licensed (AFAICT and IIRC) under the BSD/ISC license > > and was only > > covered by the dual-license because it was integrated into a work t

Re: GPL weasels and the atheros stink

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Hazelton
(As noted before - I am surround all-caps text with *'s to indicate vocal stress, not volume) On Monday 03 September 2007 05:47:59 David Schwartz wrote: > Daniel Hazelton wrote: > > > Your entire argument is based on the false assumption that > > > these licenses >

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Daniel Hazelton
(by the way, text in caps surrounded by *'s is meant to indicate vocal stress, not volume) On Sunday 02 September 2007 22:01:18 David Schwartz wrote: > > So I appear to have a > > right to convey the work under the GPL to a third party, who from me > > receives no right to use it except under th

Re: GPL weasels and the atheros stink

2007-09-02 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Sunday 02 September 2007 22:01:17 David Schwartz wrote: > > Letting aside the legality of that change, why would such a change > > be needed ? The licensing is perfectly clear: the file is available > > under the ISC licence, OR the GPL licence. This doesn't cause any > > problem for the linux

Re: Ok, lets kill the 'PCI hidden behind bridge' message (was: pci=assign-busses)

2007-07-30 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Monday 30 July 2007 14:35:13 Bernhard Kaindl wrote: > Ok, lets kill the message. As Alois Nešpor also saw, that's fixed up by > Yenta, so PCI does not have to warn about it. PCI could still warn about it > if is_cardbus is 0 in that instance of pci_scan_bridge(), but so far I have > not seen a

Re: RFT: updatedb "morning after" problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]

2007-07-29 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Sunday 29 July 2007 16:00:22 Ray Lee wrote: > On 7/29/07, Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If the problem is reading stuff back in from swap at the *same time* > > that the application is reading stuff from some user file system, and if > > that user file system is on the same drive a

Re: RFT: updatedb "morning after" problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]

2007-07-28 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Saturday 28 July 2007 17:06:50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Daniel Hazelton wrote: > > On Saturday 28 July 2007 04:55:58 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Rene Herman wrote: > >>> On 07/27/2007 09:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrot

Re: RFT: updatedb "morning after" problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]

2007-07-28 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Saturday 28 July 2007 04:55:58 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Rene Herman wrote: > > On 07/27/2007 09:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Rene Herman wrote: > >> > On 07/27/2007 07:45 PM, Daniel Hazelton wrote: > >>

Re: RFT: updatedb "morning after" problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]

2007-07-28 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Saturday 28 July 2007 03:48:13 Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 18:51 -0400, Daniel Hazelton wrote: > > Now, once more, I'm going to ask: What is so terribly wrong with swap > > prefetch? Why does it seem that everyone against it says "Its treating a >

Re: RFT: updatedb "morning after" problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]

2007-07-27 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Friday 27 July 2007 19:29:19 Andi Kleen wrote: > > Any faults in that reasoning? > > GNU sort uses a merge sort with temporary files on disk. Not sure > how much it keeps in memory during that, but it's probably less > than 150MB. At some point the dirty limit should kick in and write back the >

Re: RFT: updatedb "morning after" problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]

2007-07-27 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Friday 27 July 2007 18:08:44 Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 13:45 -0400, Daniel Hazelton wrote: > > On Friday 27 July 2007 06:25:18 Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 03:00 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > So hrm. Are we sur

Re: RFT: updatedb "morning after" problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]

2007-07-27 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Friday 27 July 2007 14:16:32 Rene Herman wrote: > On 07/27/2007 07:45 PM, Daniel Hazelton wrote: > > Updatedb or another process that uses the FS heavily runs on a users > > 256MB P3-800 (when it is idle) and the VFS caches grow, causing memory > > pressure that causes oth

Re: RFT: updatedb "morning after" problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]

2007-07-27 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Friday 27 July 2007 06:25:18 Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 03:00 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:47:49 -0700 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > More sophisticated testing is needed - there's something in > > > ext3-tools which will mmap, page i

Re: Pata support for IDE Controller 82801G ICH7 in Linux 2.6.22

2007-07-22 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Sunday 22 July 2007 18:03:06 Bartek wrote: > 2007/7/22, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > 00:1f.1 0101: 8086:27df (rev 02) > > > > > > Ok, this controller is supported. > > > Did you forgot about CONFIG_PATA_MPIIX=y? > > > > MPIIX is for early Intel laptop (pentium era). > > > > If the chip

Re: [OT] Re: Linux Kernel include files

2007-06-30 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Saturday 30 June 2007 08:02:16 Joerg Schilling wrote: > Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jörg, > > > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 12:39:57PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 12:27 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: >

Re: Please release a stable kernel Linux 3.0

2007-06-29 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Friday 29 June 2007 17:27:34 Rene Herman wrote: > On 06/29/2007 11:05 PM, Bodo Eggert wrote: > > Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Indeed if its public domain you may have almost no rights at all > >> depending what you were given. Once you get the source code you can do > >> stuff but I

Re: how about mutual compatibility between Linux's GPLv2 and GPLv3?

2007-06-27 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Thursday 28 June 2007 00:45:18 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 27, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Section 3 doesn't apply to this situation. However, other sections > > do. They are distributing in line with the distribution requirement, > &g

Re: how about mutual compatibility between Linux's GPLv2 and GPLv3?

2007-06-27 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Wednesday 27 June 2007 22:37:42 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 27, 2007, "David Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Behind a barrier is not on a medium customarily used for software > > interchange, which 3a requires. > > Are you per chance claiming that you've never heard of anyone > rece

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-19 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 19:49:24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > On Jun 19, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> remember, not all tivo models are locked down, > > > > Only the earliest that you can't find for sale any more, right? > > > >> as a result of w

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-19 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 13:06:17 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 19, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 June 2007 04:04:52 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >> On Jun 19, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > On Tue

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-19 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 04:04:52 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 19, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 June 2007 02:44:32 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >> GPLv3 forbids tivoization, therefore developer has requirement for > >> tivoizatio

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-18 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 02:44:32 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 19, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 June 2007 01:51:19 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >> On Jun 19, 2007, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > The GP

Re: mea culpa on the meaning of Tivoization

2007-06-18 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 02:10:02 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 19, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I haven't looked at it, in depth, today but one of the problems I > > saw was the apparent loopholes in the text. No specifics, but I > > rememb

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-18 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 01:51:19 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 19, 2007, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The GPLv2 is the one that allows more developers. > > > > The GPLv2 is the one that is acceptable to more people. > > Based on my understanding that the anti-tivoization provisio

Re: mea culpa on the meaning of Tivoization

2007-06-18 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Monday 18 June 2007 22:57:20 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 18, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 18 June 2007 17:31:47 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >> And if you look at GPLv3dd1 or dd2 IIRC, that's how it started. For > >> s

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-18 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Monday 18 June 2007 22:06:57 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 18, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 18 June 2007 19:31:30 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >> On Jun 18, 2007, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >&g

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-18 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Monday 18 June 2007 19:31:30 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 18, 2007, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > With the GPLv2, you need to give your software modifications back, but > > the > BZZT! > > GPLv2 never *ever* makes any technical limit

Re: mea culpa on the meaning of Tivoization

2007-06-18 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Monday 18 June 2007 17:31:47 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 18, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 18 June 2007 15:09:47 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >> Yes. Anyone feels like enforcing the GPLv2 in Brazil? > > > > I don't know

Re: mea culpa on the meaning of Tivoization

2007-06-18 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Monday 18 June 2007 15:09:47 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 17, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 17 June 2007 19:11:13 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >> Let me start with an example: I bought a wireless router some time > >> ago, an

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-18 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Monday 18 June 2007 04:49:56 Anders Larsen wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:54:56 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > I don't know any law that requires tivoization. > > Not exactly laws, but pretty close: > > Credit-card payment terminals are subject to strict security > certification, where it ha

Re: mea culpa on the meaning of Tivoization (was: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3)

2007-06-17 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Sunday 17 June 2007 19:11:13 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 17, 2007, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > That accurately describes the FCC wireless rules. > >> > >> AFAIK the FCC mandates not permitting the user to tinker. It doesn't > >> mandate the vendor to retain this ability to it

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-17 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Sunday 17 June 2007 15:32:34 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 17, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 17 June 2007 09:54:39 Michael Poole wrote: > >> What in the world makes you think there is a useful analogy > >> between communication

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-17 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Sunday 17 June 2007 14:46:05 Michael Poole wrote: > Daniel Hazelton writes: > > On Sunday 17 June 2007 09:54:39 Michael Poole wrote: > >> Daniel Hazelton writes: > >> > But your server doesn't run the internet. TiVO may use phone lines to > >> > c

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-17 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Sunday 17 June 2007 09:54:39 Michael Poole wrote: > Daniel Hazelton writes: > > But your server doesn't run the internet. TiVO may use phone lines to > > connect a device to their server (and this is an example - I don't know > > how TiVO devices actually

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-17 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Sunday 17 June 2007 02:27:42 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 17, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 17 June 2007 01:09:01 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >> On Jun 17, 2007, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-16 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Sunday 17 June 2007 01:09:01 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 17, 2007, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >> I've already explained what the spirit of the GPL is. > > > > No. You've explained one thing only: that you cannot see that people

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-16 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Sunday 17 June 2007 00:19:49 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 17, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 16 June 2007 21:54:56 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >> There may be laws that require certification or limitations on the > >> user. M

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-16 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Saturday 16 June 2007 23:31:00 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 17, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But each of those arguments is based on a technicality. > > They're based on the Free Software definition, that establishes the > four freedoms

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-16 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Saturday 16 June 2007 21:54:56 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 16, 2007, Bron Gondwana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I obviously wasn't clear enough. The only way to come into complience > > with GPL3dd4 is to reduce your ability to fix things or grant everyone > > else the ability to mess wit

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-16 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Saturday 16 June 2007 21:49:56 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 16, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 16 June 2007 15:27:37 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >> On Jun 16, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > I d

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-16 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Saturday 16 June 2007 18:01:59 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 16, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 16 June 2007 04:21:04 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >> On Jun 16, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > In

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-16 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Saturday 16 June 2007 15:27:37 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 16, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't see how TiVO has done this. They have placed no restrictions on > > *modification* at all. What they have done is placed a restriction o

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-16 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Saturday 16 June 2007 04:21:04 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 16, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 15 June 2007 23:44:00 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >> On Jun 16, 2007, Tim Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > On Fri, 20

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-16 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Saturday 16 June 2007 13:14:29 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 16, 2007, Bron Gondwana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 05:22:21AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >> On Jun 15, 2007, Bron Gondwana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > because it could easily be argued that they

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-16 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Saturday 16 June 2007 12:57:59 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 16, 2007, Bernd Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >> On Jun 15, 2007, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> What this means for the FSF goals if Tivo get up one morning and switch > >>> their system

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-15 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Friday 15 June 2007 22:16:30 Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 04:26:34PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > On Jun 15, 2007, Bron Gondwana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What happens if you're debugging something you think is a bug in the > > > Linux kernel and then you run bang i

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-15 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Friday 15 June 2007 23:44:00 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 16, 2007, Tim Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 23:29 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > >> Tivo has two choices: either it gives > >> users the content they want to watch, or it goes out of business. Is > >> that legi

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-15 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Friday 15 June 2007 20:22:50 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 15, 2007, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Jun 15, 2007, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > it irreversibly cuts off certain people from being to distribute > >>

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-15 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Friday 15 June 2007 19:39:57 Michael Gerdau wrote: > > > > What matters is *my* intent in *choosing* the GPLv2, not *his* > > > > intent in writing it. > > > > > > I beg to differ. By adopting _his_ license you adopted his view. [...] > > > > ianal, but fortunately that's not what the law is. Th

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-15 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Friday 15 June 2007 18:06:11 Michael Gerdau wrote: > > > I find it obvious that the GPL was meant to prevent such to be > > > possible. This is what I mean by the "the spirit of the GPL". > > > > Umm. It may well have been meant by *rms*. But your argument fatally > > falls down on the fact that

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-15 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Friday 15 June 2007 17:45:16 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 15, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 15 June 2007 15:37:04 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >> On Jun 15, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > On Frid

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-15 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Friday 15 June 2007 17:24:24 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 15, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> PS: Note that Stallmans motivation was *SOURCE* *CODE* *ACCESS* - > >> nothing > > > > else. > > Not, it was to be able to modify

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-15 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Friday 15 June 2007 16:04:15 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 15, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 14 June 2007 23:39:50 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >> On Jun 14, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > You&#x

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-15 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Friday 15 June 2007 15:49:00 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 15, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 14 June 2007 23:19:24 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >> IANAL, but AFAICT it doesn't. Still, encoded in the spirit (that > >> re

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-15 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Friday 15 June 2007 15:49:15 David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 11:23 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > Actually, I don't see where it explicitly states that it only covers > > > derived work. > > > > See "Section 0": > > > > The "

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-15 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Friday 15 June 2007 15:37:04 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 15, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 15 June 2007 02:59:31 Jesper Juhl wrote: > >> it doesn't say anything about being able to run a compiled version > >> o

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-15 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Friday 15 June 2007 09:12:43 David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 14:58 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If even linking was considered 'mere aggregation on a volume of a > > > storage or distribution medium', then when would the 'But whe

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-15 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Friday 15 June 2007 09:02:54 Carlo Wood wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:33:51AM -0400, Daniel Hazelton wrote: > > Incorrect. Read section 9 of the GPLv2. It's pretty clear that the "any > > later version" clause is optional. Whats more is that since the

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-15 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Friday 15 June 2007 12:22:16 Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:45:43AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Carlo Wood wrote: > > The way "collective works" work, there are two separate copyrights: there > > is the copyright in the "separate contribution", which i

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-15 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Friday 15 June 2007 06:49:05 David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 06:03 -0400, Daniel Hazelton wrote: > > In other words, it applies to *SECTIONS* of the code, not to individual > > object code files. This is why kernel modules can have their own, > > separate li

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-15 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Friday 15 June 2007 07:32:01 Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le Ven 15 juin 2007 12:53, Jesper Juhl a écrit : > > On 15/06/07, Nicolas Mailhot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> > by your argument, the user has some "right to modify the > >> > >> software", on > >> > >> >> > that piece of hardware it b

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-15 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Friday 15 June 2007 07:45:22 Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > And, as I've taken the time to explain to you, lacking any clear > > statement, written at the exact same time as the license, a > > statement of > > > intent or spirit cannot have any real legal weight when the text of a > > license is fin

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-15 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Friday 15 June 2007 06:18:59 David Greaves wrote: > Daniel Hazelton wrote: > >> Now for a different PoV: > >> Do I think Tivoisation is bad for the community ? > >> Of course I think it is but your mileage may vary. > > > > And I happen to agree with yo

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