Re: 64bit NSS build on windows 7 x64

[Owen Shepherd]

On 17 Sep 2010, at 12:12, David Stutzman wrote:

 So apparently we have MSDN and I installed a copy of VS2010 Premium this 
 morning and first run through it built NSS in 64 bit no trouble.  It seems it 
 targeted Win 5.2 (Vista?)
 
 I'm thinking my issue is that the express versions of VS don't have the 
 64-bit compilers.  The Windows/Platform SDK can install them but 
 mozilla-build doesn't appear to be expecting/accounting for that.  I may have 
 hacked the paths to point to the 64bit compiler but I'm guessing there was a 
 lot of other stuff that wasn't where it was supposed to be as well.
 
 BTW, I *was* using start-msvc9-x64, not 8...just copied and pasted the wrong 
 file name for the email.
 
 And the reason I wanted 64bit NSS is to use it with 64bit Java.  I'm the get 
 NSS working with ECC guy so I have to fight with building it on the 
 different platforms we need.
 
 I'm going to crawl back into my Java cocoon now...
 
 Thanks,
 Dave

Win 5.2 is Windows Server 2003 and XP x86_64 (Yes, Windows XP x86_64 has a 
different version number from XP i386...). Vista is 6.0, Seven is 6.1 (Makes 
sense, doesn't it? ;-))

- Owen
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Re: Rus GOST 89

[Owen Shepherd]

Nelson B Bolyard wrote:
 Today, I see the FSF web site talks about copyright assignment. I don't
 know all the implications of that, but I presume that it is essentially
 a relinquishment, except that you keep your own name on the copyrighted
 work.

 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html says:

   
 Why the FSF gets copyright assignments from contributors
 by Professor Eben Moglen, Columbia University Law School
 [...]
 In order to make sure that all of our copyrights can meet the
 recordkeeping and other requirements of registration, and in order to be
 able to enforce the GPL most effectively, FSF requires that each author
 of code incorporated in FSF projects provide a copyright assignment, and,
 where appropriate, a disclaimer of any work-for-hire ownership claims by
 the programmer's employer.
 

 I would imagine that any piece of work whose copyright has been assigned
 to FSF is no longer free to be relicensed by its original author.
Copyright assignment is, and always has been, orthogonal to GPL licensing. The 
FSF
requires that you assign copyright to them for any non-trivial contributions to
their projects (Presumably so they have the ability to handle legal actions, 
such
as infringement lawsuits, for the entirety of the code base)




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