Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 11 Sep 2000 14:26:19 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: GPL violations: make it harder |
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On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:23:34PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > > > For patches to be licensed otherwise would require that someone > > write some nasty scripts to patch the kernel given explicit line > > numbers, etc... and it is likely possible in theory, but doubtful > > that anyone would ever do it due to the effort involved and the > > brown stuff that would come back at them from an ethical point. > > Try ed-style diffs which essentially are just this :-)
That doesn't stop the patch from possibly being a derived work.
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