Re: [RFC] Patches have a license

From: Helge Hafting (helgehaf@aitel.hist.no)
Date: Mon Jan 27 2003 - 06:47:29 EST


Dave Jones wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 01:58:40AM -0800, Balbir Singh wrote:
> > I would request everyone to post their patches with
> > a license, failing which it should be assumed that
> > the license is GPL.
>
> Surely the license of the diff matches the license of the
> code it is patching ?

Usually in practice, but not necessarily. Try diff'ing
two files with different licence, then go apply
it at some file with a third licence. :-/

Helge Hafting
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