Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:47:29 +0100 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Patches have a license |
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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. :-/
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