Re: Patch for UFS2

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:09:15AM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> 
> Please read this page first:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain_10.html#SEC10
> 
> We shouldn't try to get a copyright assignment for code written for 
> another package.

Ok I see..

Then we want to have a [grub]/stage2/README file explaning that?

> They don't say "require" but it's simply a request. So, if my 
> undestanding is correct, its legal impact should be void.
> 
> As I'm not a lawyer, I might be wrong. So I can ask address@hidden if 
> you think I should confirm it.

I overlooked the wording in that sentence. No, I don't think there's a GPL
incompatibility.

Furthermore, I checked the sources of GNU Mach 1.2, and they're full of
copyright headers with the same sentence (I could find it in 523 files).

Another minor question is the order in which we should list filesystems
in the Makefiles and other preprocessor structures in the source files.
Should UFS2 be always after FFS? Should it be always as the last FS ID that
could be allocated (this would be 10, after ISOFS)?

-- 
Robert Millan

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thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."

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