[parted-devel] parted port to FreeBSD

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 10:37:50AM +0200, leslie.polzer at gmx.net wrote:
> > - Some of the code in freebsd.c comes from various FreeBSD utils.
> > Maybe it should be rewritten so it can be GPL'ed?
> If I'm right we cannot accept BSD code, so, for official inclusion, we
> would have to rewrite these parts.

This sounds new to me.  BSD code is GPL-compatible, and it is being merged in
lots of GNU projects (I can find examples if you like).

Is this about copyright assignment?  If this is so, I recall exceptions being
made in the case of code to support other OSes.  I don't have a reference right
now but I could dig it up if you want.


Besides, if we're talking about:

+/* XXX code from /usr/src/lib/libdisk/disk.c */

How about -ldisk ?

+/* XXX code from /usr/src/sbin/mount/mount.c:getmntpt() */

I suspect there's a portable version of this function with FSF-owned copyright,
somewhere (maybe Glibc or Gnulib).

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Robert Millan