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From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
To: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: [LTP] [PATCH v2 2/2] doc: Add Maintainer Patch Review Checklist
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:13:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YFSVbmQ7T0kPnlXs@yuki.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YFSGZ9YKo/JUHMtm@pevik>

Hi!
> > Good point, we should state the default license for new tests and also
> > state that the licence for tests should not change unless they are
> > completely rewritten.
> 
> 
> Maybe:
> 
> * license: the default license for new tests is GPL v2 or later, use
>   GPL-2.0-or-later; the licence for test (e.g. GPL-2.0) should not change unless
>   it's completely rewritten
> * old copyrights should be kept unless test is completely rewritten
> 
> BTW this is important, specially for DMCA from Wipro. Cyril, can you point some
> test from Wipro which could be considered as "completely rewritten"?

This is tricky topic and I'm not a lawyer, so I guess that we better
consult one.

I would expect that if you remove all the previous test code and start
from a scratch the old copyrights would not apply, but again I'm not
lawyer and I do not have in depth understanding of the copyright laws
and treaties.

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz

  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-19 12:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-18 18:16 [LTP] [PATCH v2 0/2] doc: Add Maintainer Patch Review Checklist Petr Vorel
2021-03-18 18:16 ` [LTP] [PATCH v2 1/2] doc: Document test tags Petr Vorel
2021-03-19  4:17   ` Li Wang
2021-03-19  9:01     ` Petr Vorel
2021-03-19  9:30   ` Cyril Hrubis
2021-03-18 18:16 ` [LTP] [PATCH v2 2/2] doc: Add Maintainer Patch Review Checklist Petr Vorel
2021-03-19  4:34   ` Li Wang
2021-03-19  4:56     ` Li Wang
2021-03-19  9:04       ` Petr Vorel
2021-03-19  9:23   ` Cyril Hrubis
2021-03-19 10:05     ` Petr Vorel
2021-03-19  9:25   ` xuyang2018.jy
2021-03-19  9:31     ` Cyril Hrubis
2021-03-19 11:09       ` Petr Vorel
2021-03-19 12:13         ` Cyril Hrubis [this message]
2021-03-19 12:43           ` Li Wang
2021-04-01 10:30             ` Petr Vorel

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