[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites for net-wireless/ipw2100 and net-wireless/ipw2200

2006-12-22 Thread Christian Heim
On Friday, 22. December. 2006 01:36, you wrote: Hi Christian. * On Dec 21 0:42, Christian Heim (gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: net-wireless/ipw2100 and net-wireless/ipw2200 are both kernel drivers built as an external package through portage. The codebase currently in portage is the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-wireless/ipw2100 and net-wireless/ipw2200

2006-12-22 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 00:42 +0100, Christian Heim wrote: net-wireless/ipw2100 and net-wireless/ipw2200 are both kernel drivers built as an external package through portage. The codebase currently in portage is the same that is present in any up-to-date kernel tarball (2.6.x). Just curious,

[gentoo-dev] USB disks - idea/question

2006-12-22 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, so as you plugin a USB-disk, the kernel will recognize it, and it will be called sda, sdb, sdc or whatever ... I don't like that - why doesn't it get some more usefull device-name? Some device name, that a) indicates, that it is usb (for example put them to /dev/usb) and b) uses a numering

Re: [gentoo-dev] USB disks - idea/question

2006-12-22 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Saturday, 23 December 2006 2:40, Sven Köhler wrote: Hi, so as you plugin a USB-disk, the kernel will recognize it, and it will be called sda, sdb, sdc or whatever ... I don't like that - why doesn't it get some more usefull device-name? Some device name, that a) indicates, that it is

Re: [gentoo-dev] USB disks - idea/question

2006-12-22 Thread Jakub Moc
Sven Köhler napsal(a): Hi, so as you plugin a USB-disk, the kernel will recognize it, and it will be called sda, sdb, sdc or whatever ... I don't like that - why doesn't it get some more usefull device-name? Completely off-topic here. Write yourself an UDEV rule, such as: BUS==usb,

Re: [gentoo-dev] USB disks - idea/question

2006-12-22 Thread Petteri Räty
Sven Köhler kirjoitti: Hi, so as you plugin a USB-disk, the kernel will recognize it, and it will be called sda, sdb, sdc or whatever ... I don't like that - why doesn't it get some more usefull device-name? Some device name, that a) indicates, that it is usb (for example put them to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-wireless/ipw2100 and net-wireless/ipw2200

2006-12-22 Thread Christian Heim
On Friday, 22. December. 2006 16:24, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 00:42 +0100, Christian Heim wrote: net-wireless/ipw2100 and net-wireless/ipw2200 are both kernel drivers built as an external package through portage. The codebase currently in portage is the same that is

[gentoo-dev] Marking GPL-incompatible linkage?

2006-12-22 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Trying to cleanup the faad/faac situation, I ended up thinking about a little situation with Amarok. Right now the aac useflag enable support for MP4v2 tags writing through libmp4v2; the problem is that the library is licensed under MPL, while Amarok is licensed under GPL, and they are likely

[gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+

2006-12-22 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
At the moment we represent the software we consider under GNU General Public License, version 2 of the license, but we cannot be sure it's alright to license it to any later version. Linux kernel for instance is licensed _only_ under GPLv2, but not any later version. What I propose is to copy

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites for net-wireless/ipw2100 and net-wireless/ipw2200

2006-12-22 Thread Rémi Cardona
Christian Heim a écrit : Furthermore, many users have a much easier time using the externally-built module than the in-kernel drivers. I, personally, found it to just work whereas the kernel drivers would not work without lots of troubleshooting. I haven't been in this situation, and I've

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-wireless/ipw2100 and net-wireless/ipw2200

2006-12-22 Thread Rémi Cardona
Christian Heim a écrit : Heya, net-wireless/ipw2100 and net-wireless/ipw2200 are both kernel drivers built as an external package through portage. The codebase currently in portage is the same that is present in any up-to-date kernel tarball (2.6.x). For this reason I am suggesting,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-wireless/ipw2100 and net-wireless/ipw2200

2006-12-22 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Saturday, 23 December 2006 7:44, Rémi Cardona wrote: On second thoughts, I'll raise a small objection to the removal. Latest gentoo version is 1.2.0 while the kernel (gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r2) says to contain 1.1.4. I know that difference isn't exactly huge, but still, it's a step

Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+

2006-12-22 Thread Yuri Vasilevski
Hi, On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:56:54 +0100 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the moment we represent the software we consider under GNU General Public License, version 2 of the license, but we cannot be sure it's alright to license it to any later version. Linux kernel for

Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+

2006-12-22 Thread Alec Warner
Yuri Vasilevski wrote: Hi, On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:56:54 +0100 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the moment we represent the software we consider under GNU General Public License, version 2 of the license, but we cannot be sure it's alright to license it to any later

Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+

2006-12-22 Thread Yuri Vasilevski
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:06:32 -0500 Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yuri Vasilevski wrote: Hi, On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:56:54 +0100 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the moment we represent the software we consider under GNU General Public License, version 2

Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+

2006-12-22 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 22 December 2006 22:53, Yuri Vasilevski wrote: While for the ones that support v2 or later (this is actually a special case of multiple licensing) we do: LICENSE=GPL-2 GPL-3 when it becomes available? There is one problem at least for this: to apply this method you'd have to

Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+

2006-12-22 Thread Yuri Vasilevski
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 23:31:04 +0100 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 22 December 2006 22:53, Yuri Vasilevski wrote: While for the ones that support v2 or later (this is actually a special case of multiple licensing) we do: LICENSE=GPL-2 GPL-3 when it

[gentoo-dev] Re: USB disks - idea/question

2006-12-22 Thread Sven Köhler
Raymond Lewis Rebbeck schrieb: On Saturday, 23 December 2006 2:40, Sven Köhler wrote: Hi, so as you plugin a USB-disk, the kernel will recognize it, and it will be called sda, sdb, sdc or whatever ... I don't like that - why doesn't it get some more usefull device-name? Some device name,

[gentoo-dev] Re: GPL-2 vs GPL-2+

2006-12-22 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: Comments, ideas, proposals? currently we have all those under GPL-2. Now when GPL-3 becomes available people have the option to use GPL-3. However that will still allow people to use GPL-2 if their patents, etc need it. SO it is not much difference. The big

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: USB disks - idea/question

2006-12-22 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Saturday, 23 December 2006 10:08, Sven Köhler wrote: Raymond Lewis Rebbeck schrieb: On Saturday, 23 December 2006 2:40, Sven Köhler wrote: Hi, so as you plugin a USB-disk, the kernel will recognize it, and it will be called sda, sdb, sdc or whatever ... I don't like that - why

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: USB disks - idea/question

2006-12-22 Thread Charlie Shepherd
Guys, Please take this discussion to gentoo-user or some such place - it doesn't belong on this list. -- -Charlie -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: LAST RITES - rt2x00 beta 3

2006-12-22 Thread Duncan
Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:08:45 -0600: Roy Marples wrote: Hi list. Not often I issue a last rites, but here we go! rt2x00-beta3 driver is going to be masked over the next few days and then removed from portage around

Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+

2006-12-22 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 12:10:44AM +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: On Friday 22 December 2006 23:43, Alec Warner wrote: Say I approve only GPL-3 packages (cause' I hate patents, and I dislike having a working system too!).  This would encompass anything strictly GPL-3 and also