Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux

[Pavel Raiskup]

On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 11:52 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> 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

My part of this proposal not and as you can see - James's also not:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2012-10/msg00019.html

But I'm re-adding James to CC.

Pavel