From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cast things properly to handle >2G files. Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:48:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de, git@vger.kernel.org To: "Alfred M. Szmidt" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 18 00:48:58 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 1MH3w9-0006P8-V9 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:48:58 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755930AbZFQWst (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:48:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755486AbZFQWss (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:48:48 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:51809 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753850AbZFQWsr (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:48:47 -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 n5HMmjvF026680 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:48:46 -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 n5HMmi2D008870; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:48:44 -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=-5.472 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 Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > 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. Blah. They define the term "free software" too, so that doesn't make any difference. They can relicense it any crazy way they want, as shown by the whole annoying GPLv3 idiocy. It doesn't matter one whit whether you agree with them or not. And isn't it "nice" of them to not require exclusive ownership? Gag. And what a bunch of hypocritical people they are too - because they'll happily take code from other people without any copyright assignment what-so-ever when they feel like it (case in point: Hurd took drivers and filesystems from Linux, and I can pretty much guarantee that they didn't have copyright assignments for any of it - but hey, rules are rules only when they apply to _other_ people, right?) And you didn't face the actual issue: the papers the FSF makes you sign are _way_ less obvious than the DCO is. Linus