Re: GPL code reuse questions

2010-08-09 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:08:45AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > No need to care about license stuff: fold that into a separate > process, and voilà :) It's not that simple. What constitutes a derived work cannot be decided based on process boundaries alone. After all, processes (i.e. adre

Re: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks?

2010-08-09 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 02:36:49PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Sat 24 Jul 2010 04:08:51 +0200, a écrit : > > - A full-featured high-resolution console (probably > > framebuffer-based) > > For that, just a framebuffer would be enough, then bogl can be used. I

Re: Fixing grub-probe to work with user-space part stores

2010-08-09 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:53:25PM +0200, Jeremie Koenig wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 01:20:57AM +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net > wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 08:00:24PM +0200, Jérémie Koenig wrote: > > > The second one, which I favor and am working on so far, would be > > > to enum

Re: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks?

2010-08-09 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 07:13:44PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > writes: > > However, I have been planning to get an extra router box for quite > > some time now -- so that is really only a temporary consideration. > > (Holding me back so far is the excessive cost of suitable x86-bas

Re: GPL code reuse questions

2010-08-09 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:51:50AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > This mail is based on the recent bug-hurd thread of missing features > of Hurd: USB, SATA, sound, wireless, modern processors, etc. This > question comes up every time somebody mention the usability of Hurd > (except the inhere

Re: hurdextras in git?

2010-08-09 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:56:53AM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 04:19:46AM +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net > wrote: > > > > > > They have some very interesting translators, and these > > > > > > should be easily available. > > > You mean Git submodules? Yeah, that's

Re: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks?

2010-08-09 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 02:21:57PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am I right in reading your mail, that the real show stoppers for a pure Hurd > environment for you are > > * Hurd related: > - Boot on laptop ;) > - Non-jerky X > - Switching between console and X > -

Re: July 2010: RMS about the Hurd

2010-08-09 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 3 August 2010 05:14, Quiliro Ordóñez wrote: > >> | Finishing the HURD would not advance us at all in supporting these >> |   devices. The work that is needed is at the driver and firmware level. >> |   That's why our high priority task list includes items relating to >> |   free drivers, but no