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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 17, 2009, 22:48 UTC
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On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
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>    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
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Message 9 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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