Re: notes on upgrading to next version

2021-01-06 Thread ellie timoney
> 3. Feature branches are expected to add a file to upgrading/next that > explains their upgrade requirements. I'm wondering whether we would want this file to exist even if the feature has no upgrade requirements, and maybe just say "no upgrade requirements" -- so that the difference between "

notes on upgrading to next version

2021-01-06 Thread Ricardo Signes
In our last dev call, we said that we'd like to start keeping notes, during vX.{odd} versions about what you'll need to do to upgrade to the next vX.{even} version. This is important! We expect most people only run stable versions, and will want to know what kind of upgrade process might exist

Re: IPR notice draft for Cyrus-SASL

2021-01-06 Thread Matt via Devel
On 06/01/2021 23:15, Дилян Палаузов wrote: Hello Matt, I personally cannot apply for US jails, as US law does not apply to me. If some administrative work shall be done because of US laws, then the work shall only be done by those under US law. Some years ago I wanted to contribute 10 lines

Re: IPR notice draft for Cyrus-SASL

2021-01-06 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Thursday, January 7, 2021 1:15 AM +0200 Дилян Палаузов wrote: Hello Matt, I personally cannot apply for US jails, as US law does not apply to me. If some administrative work shall be done because of US laws, then the work shall only be done by those under US law. Other countries ha

Re: IPR notice draft for Cyrus-SASL

2021-01-06 Thread Дилян Палаузов
Hello Matt, I personally cannot apply for US jails, as US law does not apply to me. If some administrative work shall be done because of US laws, then the work shall only be done by those under US law. Some years ago I wanted to contribute 10 lines to GNU. I was told to print, sign, scan and

Re: IPR notice draft for Cyrus-SASL

2021-01-06 Thread Matt via Devel
On 06/01/2021 21:55, Дилян Палаузов wrote: Hello, my question was, what will the bad consequences be, if this is done implicitly. The answer was that it cannot be done implicitly. One possible reading is, that nobody knows what the negative consequences could be and the hypothetical negative

Re: IPR notice draft for Cyrus-SASL

2021-01-06 Thread Дилян Палаузов
Hello, my question was, what will the bad consequences be, if this is done implicitly. The answer was that it cannot be done implicitly. One possible reading is, that nobody knows what the negative consequences could be and the hypothetical negative consequences are just avoided when every hum

Re: IPR notice draft for Cyrus-SASL

2021-01-06 Thread Matt via Devel
On 06/01/2021 20:37, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Wednesday, January 6, 2021 10:31 PM +0200 Дилян Палаузов wrote: Hello Quanah, what will happen if all these things (like releasing rights) are done implicitly, rather than explicitly? How bad can such an idea be? It can't be done impl

Re: IPR notice draft for Cyrus-SASL

2021-01-06 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Wednesday, January 6, 2021 10:31 PM +0200 Дилян Палаузов wrote: Hello Quanah, what will happen if all these things (like releasing rights) are done implicitly, rather than explicitly? How bad can such an idea be? It can't be done implicitly. The contributor must explicitly transfe

Re: IPR notice draft for Cyrus-SASL

2021-01-06 Thread Дилян Палаузов
Hello Quanah, what will happen if all these things (like releasing rights) are done implicitly, rather than explicitly? How bad can such an idea be? Greetings Дилян Am 6. Januar 2021 21:37:03 OEZ schrieb Quanah Gibson-Mount : > > >--On Wednesday, January 6, 2021 9:01 PM +0200 Дилян Палаузов

Re: IPR notice draft for Cyrus-SASL

2021-01-06 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Wednesday, January 6, 2021 9:01 PM +0200 Дилян Палаузов wrote: Rather than requesting explicit actions, I would prefer something implicit. E.g. creating a LICENSE file, that acts as "GENERAL TERMS": once you contribute, you agree implicitly to the general terms. It doesn't work tha

Re: IPR notice draft for Cyrus-SASL

2021-01-06 Thread Дилян Палаузов
Hello, my understanding is, that the Cyrus SASL code is currently more or less owned by CMU and the question is how to amend the code, while it belongs to CMU. Mails in the past left the CMU's opinion on this unclear and I do not see how the text below addresses these. Rather than requesting exp

Re: IPR notice draft for Cyrus-SASL

2021-01-06 Thread Howard Chu via Devel
Ken Murchison wrote: > I'm not a legal scholar, but this looks good to me. It's pretty much a copy/paste of what we've used in the OpenLDAP Project for ... ages. Hasn't ever led to any legal challenges, afaik. > > On 12/10/20 5:02 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: >> Here's a draft of an IPR notice