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Re: [PATCH]: Add flock syscall emulation


On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 02:51:10PM -0500, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>I decided to port this particular version of flock emulation from a
>patch written by a Red Hat employee for use in Red Hat's IMAPd RPM.  I
>tried contacting the individual listed in the spec's ChangeLog, but got
>no response.  IANAL, but since there was no notice of copyright at the
>top of the file and since this code was created for Red Hat by a Red
>Hat employee, I'm assuming that Red Hat owns the rights to this code?
>This is based on the assumption that Red Hat employees sign a similar
>copyright assignment to the one that we do.  If this isn't so, please
>let me know and I'll go back to the drawing board.

And, the employee was...?  Your reasoning may be correct but it isn't
possible to know for sure without details.

cgf


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