On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 8:52 PM, Phil Susi <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/28/2015 4:48 PM, Al Dunsmuir wrote: >> I'm working on getting the Fedora ppc64 secondary arch install process >> working again for Mac G5 machines. >> >> As part of this, I'm developing some patches to improve support for >> mac (Apple Partition Map) disk volumes to parted and GParted. This >> includes support in libparted for: >> - A new "map" flag (PED_PARTITION_APPLE_PARTITION_MAP) >> - A new "apple_map" filesystem type >> >> This means GParted see the Apple_partition_map partition as an >> "Unknown" filesystem, and prevents users from accidently deleting or >> reformatting that partition. > > I'm having trouble seeing what these will be used for, could you explain > a bit more? Also why do you want to change the way it works? You say > that the unknown filesystem makes gparted not let you screw it up, but > that's a good thing isn't it? > >> In discussing this with Brian C. Lane, he suggested I may need to get >> a copyright assignment filled in. A search of the list archives send >> me to the gnu page which seems to indicate that the project owner (Jim >> Meyering ?) needs to send me the doc to complete. Once I have that it >> should be straight forward - I write server software at a bank for my >> day job, and they have no issues with me contributing to open software >> projects. > > IIRC, you get the form from the GNU legal department and send it back to > them. Jim stepped down and Brian and I currently are the maintainers > for parted.
The assignment forms are in the gnulib repository: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/doc/Copyright Depending on what/how-much, use one of these: request-assign.changes request-assign.future request-assign.program
