Re: Reiser4 and GRUB...

[Yury Umanets]

Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:

> At Sun, 25 May 2003 00:02:12 +0400,
> Yury Umanets wrote:
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> > Hm... I'm agreed in general, but I'm afraid a little, that I will have 
> > not enough time for that sometimes. There are few projects except 
> > reiser4 I'm participating in.
> >    
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> In principle, I wouldn't integrate new code into the official source
> tree, if nobody could maintain the code. In most cases, I can do that
> instead of the author, but it is impossible for me to really
> understand every piece of code, in particular if the code is based on
> complicated data structures (such as filesystems).
>
> I don't say that you will have to work on GRUB every day. But if
> someone reports a serious bug in your code, you should take action in
> a reasonable period.
Okay, I'm agreed.

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> > Yes :) Andrew likes new ideas like plugins in parted and so on. We have 
> > worked together on reiserfs support in parted.
> >    
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> I know. I was also a contributor to parted.

>  
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> > Okay, thanks a lot. BTW, what is the country you are living currently 
> > and what is that happy country you are going to?
> >    
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> It is somewhat dangerous to speak about countries in public places,
> because some people tend to criticize individuals, based on where they
> live and/or where they were born. I would be happy to answer, if you
> ask me privately. :)
Okay :)

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> > P.S. I have attached fsys_reiser4.c for you. Take a look please. It is 
> > pretty small.
> >    
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> Well, it is very simple, but I also found a problem.
>
> The copyright note says that it is under the term of
> reiser4progs/COPYING. If you want to add the code into GRUB, add the
> file reiser4progs/COPYING as well, or describe the license term
> explicitly.
I'm sorry. I will fix it in a patch.

> Isn't it the GPL?
It is GPL, Hans Reiser is rightholder.

> Okuji
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Thanks.

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Yury Umanets