Re: USB -- GPLv3 compatibility

2008-12-04 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 12:41:08AM +0100, Davi Leal 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 other

Security models (was: A niche for the Hurd - next step: reality check)

2008-12-04 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:56:10PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: > 2008/11/25 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The situation is really quite simple: A system designed to support > > use cases like DRM is unquestionably bad from a GNU viewpoint -- not > > only because it helps DRM specifically, but b

Re: master's thesis on hurd

2008-12-04 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:58:07PM +0100, Ruben Pollan wrote: > I'm student of computer engineering on spain. I'm about to finish my > degree (5 years of study). I have to do a master's thesis, I'm > interesting on hurd and I think will be a good idea do something about > hurd. > > I don't h

Re: What shall the filter do to bottommost translators

2008-12-04 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:40 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 07:49:18PM +0200, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:27 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you mean that we will have to proxy *each* control port? > > Well, we need to make sure that t

Re: Security models (was: A niche for the Hurd - next step: reality check)

2008-12-04 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Olaf, Firstoff: Thank you! This is information I hoped for! Am Mittwoch 03 Dezember 2008 13:57:12 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > When a process needs the service of another process which deals with > resources it has no access to itself -- say a powerbox -- it doesn't > launch that process i

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: 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.