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Re: malloc: performance improvements and bugfixes
- From: Jörn Engel <joern at purestorage dot com>
- To: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh dot poyarekar at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>, "GNU C. Library" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Joern Engel <joern at purestorage dot org>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:44:37 -0800
- Subject: Re: malloc: performance improvements and bugfixes
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On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 07:22:32AM +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On 26 January 2016 at 06:30, Jörn Engel <joern@purestorage.com> wrote:
> > Agreed. I thought I mentioned that this is a braindump and not a
> > patchset for submission. ;)
>
> Thank you for doing this. There is however the issue of copyright
> assignment. I don't have access to the copyright list, so could you
> (or Carlos, Joseph, etc.) please tell me if you have signed it?
I have not and will not. Or at least someone with a silver tongue would
have to spend significant time explaining the advantages of copyright
assignment to me.
> Without that, not only is your work unusable for us (since it is a
> significant change), it also makes it difficult for someone with a
> copyright assignment to write an independent implementation since
> they're 'tainted' by your patch.
I guess that will be the end of it, then. Bummer.
Jörn
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