From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cast things properly to handle >2G files. Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:27:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: ams@gnu.org Cc: Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de, git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 18 00:27:31 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MH3bN-0007xD-Py for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:27:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759024AbZFQW1T (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:27:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756315AbZFQW1S (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:27:18 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:48908 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756097AbZFQW1R (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:27:17 -0400 Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MH3bD-0004fq-07; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:27:19 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Linus Torvalds on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:25:34 -0700 (PDT)) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Side note: for somebody with a "gnu.org" address, you're showing some really bad taste. Do you know that the FSF ends up asking for a hell of a lot of paperwork and other crazy things to take peoples submissions. And they actually want the copyrights signed over, so that they can change it to _any_ license. The DCO, in contrast, is a paragon of simplicity and clarity, and doesn't ask you to sign away any rights. You are misinformed. The copyright assignments from the FSF explictly state that the code will always be free software, and they grant back all rights to the code you assigned to them.