Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Jan 2003 03:30:41 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Patches have a license |
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On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, 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 ?
NO!
Insert a random amount of comments or linefeeds and hand edit the patch to conform on a --dry-run and it does not mate.
Remember "patch" is only a series of offsets and comparison. There is no checksum against the file to be patched.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group
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