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

[Glenn L. McGrath]

On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:39:58 -0500
Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Saturday 25 February 2006 03:01, 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.
> 
> correct, and it's called *copyright*
> 
> > Its can`t destroy ANY license. 
> 
> licensing is unrelated to copyright ... you still and will forever retain 
> copyright on your work; however, since it was based upon GPL code, it will be 
> licensed under the GPL

You can make contributions to GPL'ed projects with other licenses as
long as they are all compatible.

It is fine to add BSD code, there is already a bit of BSD code in
busybox.

Because the GPL doesnt allow any restrictions other than what it
advocates it means distibution is still limited by the GPL license.



Glenn