From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cast things properly to handle >2G files. Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:25:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Johannes Schindelin , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Alfred M. Szmidt" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jun 15 06:26:41 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 1MG3mJ-00043K-Nd for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:26:40 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751322AbZFOEZm (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:25:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751397AbZFOEZm (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:25:42 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:51517 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750870AbZFOEZl (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:25:41 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id n5F4PYqL032158 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:25:35 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id n5F4PYjl029429; Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:25:34 -0700 X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.467 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,OSDL_HEADER_SUBJECT_BRACKETED,PATCH_SUBJECT_OSDL X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > > I cannot agree to the D-C-O in good faith, since it speaks of open > source licenses, a group of licenses that include non-free software > licenses, something which I cannot support. If you can't sign off on it, then Junio shouldn't take it, since you're basically saying that you cannot say that you own the copyrights or cannot license it under the appropriate copyright. Yes, it speaks of "open source licenses", but it says: "under the open source license indicated in the file", and "appropriate open source license". For git, that's GPLv2 (or GPLv2-compatible, ie something like the simplified BSD license that can just be converted to GPLv2). The DCO is phrased that way so that other projects that use things like the BSD or Apache license can still use the DCO as-is. 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. Linus