[PATCH] fdisk.c: major whitespace/style cleanup

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Sat Feb 25 13:20:22 UTC 2006


On Saturday 25 February 2006 3:01 am, Vladimir N. Oleynik wrote:
> Mike,
>
> > it doesnt matter what you want to do vlad, the fdisk applet was based
> > upon util-linux's fdisk which is released under the GPL .
>
> Yes. I like GPL. But
> (repeated): Each author has the inseparable right to own work.
> Its main right. Its can`t destroy ANY license.
>
> > .. thus you cant
> > arbitrarily change the license to BSD without the consent of the
> > util-linux copyright holder .
>
> Ok. Remove my OWN work, and do start fdisk port to busybox from util-linux
> from zero.

Technically speaking the GPL is not a revocable license, but in this case the 
current fdisk is crap anyway, and I've already recommended starting over from 
scratch, so I have no problem yanking what's there and asking Garret or 
Dennis to write a new one.  (And doing it myself if they don't want to: it's 
probably about a one-week project.  It's writing a _boot_sector_...)

It's not like 30 seconds with Google can't find the structures it needs to 
write:

http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_tables-2.html
http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs-partition-boot-sector.htm
http://www.datarescue.com/laboratory/partition.htm

The interesting ones for us are the traditional PC one, and possibly BSD disk 
labels (since Red Hat uses 'em).  The others we can worry about if somebody 
actually misses them...

Rob
-- 
Never bet against the cheap plastic solution.



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