On 29.10.2011 17:22, Dee Sharpe wrote: > Ok, so I'd assume that the AFS driver needs to be rewritten. Is it absolutely > mandatory that copyright be assigned to the FSF? > I rewrote both BFS and AFS (which is a minor modification to the former). Can you give me the tools (mkfs + a way to write to AFS) necessarily to automatically test it for regressions in future? > Sent from my iPhone4 Please avoid posting such advertisements here. > On Oct 29, 2011, at 4:37 AM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' > Serbinenko<phco...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> An unfortunate discovery has been done: our AFS code is based on >> fsys_afs.c and afs.h from Syllable GRUB Legacy. The files in question >> are not under FSF copyright, not licence-compatible and it wasn't >> announced what's the code based on when the patch was sent or committed. >> While first one is a minor issue I could grant exception for, the 2 >> other ones are fatal. I remind to all of you that a license-incompatible >> can put the whole project in jeopardy and the need of both announcing >> where code came from (refer to your copyright assignment if you have >> one) and proper acknowledgement and traceability. The later is very >> important if the code can come from several possible sources. In this >> case if the code has been based on Haiku's BFS it would have been fine, >> unfortunately it wasn't, without proper traceability it's hard to >> differentiate between such cases. >> >> -- >> Regards >> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Grub-devel mailing list >> Grub-devel@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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