[parted-devel] Re: parted port to FreeBSD

[Viktor Vasilev]

Quoting Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>:

>
> Hi!
>
> Just a pair of notes.
>
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 02:13:11AM +0200, Viktor Vasilev wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Robert Millan and I are working on a port of GNU parted to FreeBSD and
> > Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. A patch against trunk is attached, also available
> > from
>
> That's not fair!  Viktor did the actual porting, I just sent him some
> corrections for autoconf stuff and GNU/kFreeBSD support.  The merit is all
> his ;)

It's !!fair :) About the only reward for open source software developers
is the credits they get for doing something useful. So thanks for doing it :)

> > - Some of the code in freebsd.c comes from various FreeBSD utils. Maybe it
> > should be rewritten so it can be GPL'ed?
>
> Since BSD code is GPL-compatible (unless it has the advertising clausse,
> which I believe is not the case), there's no need to rewrite in order to
> GPL it. In that case just add a GPL license header before the BSD one
> (and keep both).
>
> However, the Parted maintainers might want copyright assignments, depending
> on their policies (which I ignore).

Well, I prefer code over politics, so I'll just go ahead and rewrite those
snippets. If there are irreplaceable pieces, then I'll contact the FreeBSD
project and ask for an advice.


Cheers,
Vik