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

[Jim Meyering]

Stephen Powell wrote:

> 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.

Hi Stephen,

Your patch is large enough that we have to require
a signed copyright assignment.

Here's the relevant section from HACKING:

  http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=blob;f=HACKING#l428

Sorry for the hassle (it'll mean you sending an email,
waiting for snail/paper mail, and signing and sending that
back to the FSF), but it's for a good cause.

Jim