Hello, Thank you for the clarification. I had assumed that you held the copyright; that is why I was perhaps too definitive regarding the necessity of a transfer agreement.
> In the future, you need to press "reply-all" to send your emails to the bug-hurd mailing list. We can sometimes make mistakes like this—thank you for pointing it out. Best regards, Alperen Erkan On Tue, Nov 3, 2026 at 2:16 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > November 2, 2026 at 2:22 PM, "Alperen Erkan" <[email protected] > mailto:[email protected] > ?to=%22Alperen%20Erkan%22%20%3Cerkanalperen54%40gmail.com%3E > wrote: > > > > > > > That’s quite something; an addition of this scale requires a transfer > agreement. If you intend to add it to HURD, you’ll need to initiate the > process. > > I do not own the copyright on the code, so I cannot transfer the copyright > to the FSF. > > Also the code is licensed BSD...I don't know that there is a point to > assigning copyright > to the FSF... > > In the future, you need to press "reply-all" to send your emails to the > bug-hurd mailing list. > > Joshua > > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2026 at 9:30 PM jbranso--- via Bug reports for the GNU > Hurd <[email protected] mailto:[email protected] > wrote: > > > > > > > > November 1, 2026 at 1:24 PM, "NexusSfan" <[email protected] mailto: > [email protected] mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] > ?to=%22NexusSfan%22%20%3Cnexussfan%40seznam.cz http://40seznam.cz/ %3E > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On 11/1/26 10:15 AM, jbranso--- via Bug reports for the GNU Hurd > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm just forwarding your email to bug-hurd. Let's keep the > discussion on the mailing list eh? > > > > > And I really do not have any answers to your questions. I'm not a > Hurd developer. :( > > > > > Maybe is some ways ext3/4 is better that gefs. Though I don't > think ext3/4 has snapshots... > > > > > Joshua > > > > > > > > > With Hurd, you don't need to have your own filesystem to be > upstreamed, because of translators. > > > > > > > > I assume that if the gefs driver is less than 1000 lines like you > mentioned, it should be somewhat easy to create your own Hurd translator > for it. > > > > > > If I said less than 1,000 lines...I miswrote. it's closer to 10,000 > lines of code. > > > > > > > Of course, if you want the Hurd to boot from gefs there are some > extra steps you need to do. > > > > > > > > -- NexusSfan > > > > GNU.org - Please support free software. > > > > > > > > > >
