[PATCH] fdisk.c: major whitespace/style cleanup

[Andy Green]

Vladimir N. Oleynik wrote:

>> licensing is unrelated to copyright ... you still and will forever
>> retain copyright on your work; however, since it was based upon GPL
>> code, it will be licensed under the GPL
> 
> I did not close a code at my work. I already say: my license is more
> free GPL.

      1 /* fdisk.c -- Partition table manipulator for Linux.
      2  *
      3  * Copyright (C) 1992  A. V. Le Blanc (LeBlanc at mcc.ac.uk)
      4  *
      5  * Licensed under the GPL v1 or later, see the file LICENSE in
this tarball.
      6  *
      7  * Vladimir Oleynik <dzo at simtreas.ru> 2001,2002 Busybox port
      8  */

Your code is dual-licensed then Vlado.  Because if it was based on GPL
code, it must be available under the GPL.  You are free to ALSO issue
your changes (not the whole code) under another license, be it more or
less free, but ONLY IN ADDITION.  The problem comes from, as shown
above, your work is based on -- derived from -- code that was only
available because it was GPL'd.

FWIW although I did not need to use fdisk from Busybox yet I appreciate
the work you put into it.

If the problem here really is that there is misuse of busybox license,
let's look at that a bit harder, since because you are a copyright
holder you do have the legal right to complain to the bad people
misusing it.  Eg, check out Harald Welte's

http://gpl-violations.org

-Andy
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