[parted-devel] Copyright assignment form for parted

[Jim Meyering]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 8:52 PM, Phil Susi <psusi at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 8/28/2015 4:48 PM, Al Dunsmuir wrote:
>> I'm working on getting the Fedora ppc64 secondary arch install process
>> working again for Mac G5 machines.
>>
>> As  part  of  this, I'm developing some patches to improve support for
>> mac  (Apple  Partition  Map)  disk volumes to parted and GParted. This
>> includes support in libparted for:
>> - A new "map" flag (PED_PARTITION_APPLE_PARTITION_MAP)
>> - A new "apple_map" filesystem type
>>
>> This  means  GParted  see  the  Apple_partition_map  partition  as  an
>> "Unknown"  filesystem,  and prevents users from accidently deleting or
>> reformatting that partition.
>
> I'm having trouble seeing what these will be used for, could you explain
> a bit more?  Also why do you want to change the way it works?  You say
> that the unknown filesystem makes gparted not let you screw it up, but
> that's a good thing isn't it?
>
>> In  discussing this with Brian C. Lane, he suggested I may need to get
>> a  copyright  assignment filled in. A search of the list archives send
>> me to the gnu page which seems to indicate that the project owner (Jim
>> Meyering  ?) needs to send me the doc to complete. Once I have that it
>> should  be straight forward - I write server software at a bank for my
>> day job, and they have no issues with me contributing to open software
>> projects.
>
> IIRC, you get the form from the GNU legal department and send it back to
> them.  Jim stepped down and Brian and I currently are the maintainers
> for parted.

The assignment forms are in the gnulib repository:

  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/doc/Copyright

Depending on what/how-much, use one of these:

  request-assign.changes
  request-assign.future
  request-assign.program