Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux

[Joerg Schilling]

Ondrej Vasik <address@hidden> wrote:

> AFAIK Red Hat has already signed FSF papers for all employees if the
> developed patch is part of the work (at least it was the case for
> coreutils, but I assume this is the same for GNU tar). This patch comes
> from Pavel and is based on the patch of James Antill (proposed in
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2006-08/msg00004.html ). Both
> are Red Hat employees, so no papers should be needed. However, adding
> James to cc, to ensure noone else was involved in the first version of
> the patch - which is the base for the current Pavel's one.

Is the port to gtar a derived work from the implementation in star?

Jörg

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