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Re: [PATCH] Cast things properly to handle >2G files.

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Jun 15, 2009, 04:25 UTC
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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
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Message 7 of 23 in “Cast things properly to handle >2G files.”
  1. Cast things properly to handle >2G files.Alfred M. Szmidt, Jun 14, 2009
  2. Johannes SchindelinJun 14, 2009
  3. Nicolas PitreJun 15, 2009
  4. Alfred M. SzmidtJun 15, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoJun 15, 2009
  6. Johannes SchindelinJun 15, 2009
  7. Linus TorvaldsJun 15, 2009
  8. Alfred M. SzmidtJun 17, 2009
  9. Linus TorvaldsJun 17, 2009
  10. Alfred M. SzmidtJun 17, 2009
  11. Linus TorvaldsJun 17, 2009
  12. Junio C HamanoJun 17, 2009
  13. Fix big left-shifts of unsigned charLinus Torvalds, Jun 18, 2009
  14. Johannes SchindelinJun 18, 2009
  15. Junio C HamanoJun 18, 2009
  16. Linus TorvaldsJun 18, 2009
  17. Johannes SchindelinJun 18, 2009
  18. Linus TorvaldsJun 18, 2009
  19. Fix various sparse warnings in the git source codeLinus Torvalds, Jun 18, 2009
  20. Matthieu MoyJun 18, 2009
  21. Linus TorvaldsJun 18, 2009
  22. Linus TorvaldsJun 18, 2009
  23. Linus TorvaldsJun 17, 2009

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