Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Patches have a license | Date | Mon, 27 Jan 2003 11:10:25 +0000 (GMT) |
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> > 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 ?
That is what I've always thought. However, in any case, even if the patch itself isn't explicitly licensed as GPL, the code generated as a result of patching a GPLed piece of code, must surely be GPLed, because applying the patch is no different to editing the file with a text editor.
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