Re: My absence at the tomorrow's (Oct 7) meeting

2009-10-06 Thread Davi Leal
Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: > > Things may turn out differently and I may still arrive at the Hurd > > meeting (being late), but I won't say this is much probable. > > Oh, that reminds me. I will probably also be an hour or so late for > the meeting. Why not just delay the Hurd meeting 1 hour, or

Re: GNUstep and Hurd

2009-06-18 Thread Davi Leal
Stefan Bidigaray wrote: > PS: Didn't know if this was the right list to post this in or not, it seems > like the most active. Yes, this is the right mailing list. Thanks for the link!

Re: another niche for the Hurd

2008-12-04 Thread Davi Leal
Proposal: Add to the list the below one, as a long term goal. * The possibility to get a kernel "GPLv3 or later" compatible.

Re: USB -- GPLv3 compatibility

2008-12-04 Thread Davi Leal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If you port a driver you should take into account the license such > > driver use. IMHO the Hurd should go towards full GPLv3 compatibility. > > Currently the drivers live in GNU Mach, which is a dependency of the > actual Hurd, but otherwise they are quite disconnecte

Re: USB -- GPLv3 compatibility

2008-11-30 Thread Davi Leal
Thomas Schwinge wrote: > One thing to work on are device drivers. These would most probably be > ported from another operating system (Linux, *BSD) If you port a driver you should take into account the license such driver use. IMHO the Hurd should go towards full GPLv3 compatibility. The GPLv3

Hunt down non-GPLv3-compatible code

2008-11-15 Thread Davi Leal
In discussion with William Leslie (verte) in the #hurd IRC channel, the idea of getting rid of GPLv2 only code was exposed. A kernel under "GPLv3 or later" would be great. Optionally with some "BSD" code. Maybe it could be one of the long-term target of "the Hurd roadmap". Currently gnumac