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Re: quicksort
* Mike Frysinger [2011-11-28 22:45 -0500]:
> On Monday 28 November 2011 19:00:48 Carsten Hey wrote:
> > Everything in this patches that would be copyrightable by me (if
> > there is anything at all) is licensed under the terms of the WTFPL
> > 2.0 [3].
>
> unfortunately, that's not acceptable. if you want code merged into
> glibc, it has to have the copyright assigned to the FSF.
The code has been merged/ported from a quicksort I wrote. I'm not going
to restrict myself on how I will be able to use this original code in
future.
As licensing it under the terms of CC zero or similar apparently
wouldn't change the situation, I suggest to cherry pick the changes that
are not copyrightable. For example, the first commit (the correct
placing of the pivot element) doesn't seem to be copyrightable.
Carsten