Regarding copyright assignment to FSF

2021-08-11 Thread Damien Zammit
Hi Ludo, On 11/8/21 11:01 pm, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > It would be interesting to consider dropping the copyright assignment > requirement for Hurd/Mach/MiG. For what remains primarily a hobby > project, this looks to me like a hindrance more than anything else. I imagine it is slightly inconven

Re: Hurd Security vulnerabilities, please upgrade!

2021-08-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Nathan Dehnel, le mer. 11 août 2021 15:51:01 -0500, a ecrit: > My understanding is, Hurd is licensed GPL2 but there are plans to > relicense it to GPL3, and dropping copyright reassignment would make > that more difficult. The Hurd source code is GPL2+. There are some pieces which are GPL2-only,

Re: Hurd Security vulnerabilities, please upgrade!

2021-08-11 Thread Nathan Dehnel
My understanding is, Hurd is licensed GPL2 but there are plans to relicense it to GPL3, and dropping copyright reassignment would make that more difficult.

Re: Hurd Security vulnerabilities, please upgrade!

2021-08-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Samuel, Samuel Thibault skribis: > Ricardo Wurmus, le mar. 10 août 2021 17:52:34 +0200, a ecrit: >> I’m a little unclear on what this means for distributions like Guix. Should >> we just update to the latest version from git? Are there specific commits >> we should use if it’s not just the