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Re: quicksort
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 November 2011 14:05:46 Josh Boyer wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> > On 11/29/2011 12:49 PM, Carsten Hey wrote:
>> >> Carlos O'Donell suggested talking about the code first before stating
>> >> with the paperwork. ?I think this is a sane suggestion.
>> >
>> > FYI.
>> >
>> > I do not want to encourage anyone to look at Carsten's patches, doing so
>> > would immediately cause copyright problems if that person was involved
>> > in related glibc work *before* copyright is acquired for the changes.
>>
>> Um, you do realize that once it's on the list there is no plausible
>> way you can claim otherwise, right?
>
> in this case, the patches weren't posted directly to the list. ?only mentioned
> via URI's to where they could be found.
That's only marginally better. The comment on the process still stands.
I think it would be slightly ridiculous to implement, mind you.
josh