[parted-devel] Re: parted port to FreeBSD

[Robert Millan]

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
;)

> - 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).

-- 
Robert Millan