[parted-devel] [Parted-maintainers] Debian Bug #578097: No support for CMS-formatted disks in parted

[Stephen Powell]

On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:45:58 -0400 (EDT), Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Hello Jonathan and Stephen,
> 
> First, thank for both of you.
> 
> Stephen, from what I saw in your patch it will require copyright assignment
> to FSF so while Jim and others with more experience in s390 take a look on
> that, it would be good to start the paper work to get the copyright
> assignment done and allow it to be included in upstream repository.

I'm not a lawyer, but I hereby grant to FSF all rights that they want or need
in order to include any of my code under the same license that parted currently
uses.  If you're worried about IBM, the closest thing to IBM code that I
used was the structure mapping of the CMS volume label, which was taken
from the linux kernel source tree (arch/s390/include/asm/vtoc.h).  I changed
the data types to correspond to the user-defined data types that parted uses,
but the structure mapping and field names were taken from there.  So there
should be no problem with IBM.  If there's anything else you need, let me
know.

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