From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Two janitorial patches for builtin/blame.c Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:44:48 -0800 Message-ID: <20140121174448.GG18964@google.com> References: <1390157870-29795-1-git-send-email-dak@gnu.org> <87d2jlqp7x.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20140121165546.GE18964@google.com> <874n4xqlly.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: David Kastrup X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 21 18:44:58 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W5fNh-00006B-IT for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:44:57 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755115AbaAURoy (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:44:54 -0500 Received: from mail-yh0-f51.google.com ([209.85.213.51]:42894 "EHLO mail-yh0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754903AbaAURox (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:44:53 -0500 Received: by mail-yh0-f51.google.com with SMTP id l109so2901107yhq.24 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:44:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=IiYNAI8Iyj1GMOA5U2HNActVD6WnpFouS+ucw3Ol7L0=; b=ipHGSYji6Xgb8S6fRQ8VJ63/ffYepRW0rgtow6mQv4Po7cGRNUtzpeyVjhDz+dliaS KM7eQ+66ZQ0ZmKDzPTsSVHxQeEJHvNFTZo6CmoCOvDyzFNsUIjlABe4ctI9YkoYYUnf5 EK7KQBYyMZNr9JwjpBXb9EXTq7EjUz1vZhiabkfG+gYY1D0OFNlqxxZlLoBA3NGt/vti ML0AdjAvD2P1RrCO/J5XDXxgp9RBRZwSE3VTcAB+VtXGIBxG8/kbsfmZEw+m3yXPR+Ym rFg9R19z5+7UemeZcUtZSmoUhPUoUzfFRkid4ESv6+13fFAJFB7Jt+wiVOcD10wPK/e5 Ewew== X-Received: by 10.236.17.34 with SMTP id i22mr2437287yhi.110.1390326291433; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:44:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from google.com ([2620:0:1000:5b00:b6b5:2fff:fec3:b50d]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id w50sm15037782yhc.15.2014.01.21.09.44.50 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:44:51 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <874n4xqlly.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: > So my understanding is that when we are talking about _significant_ > additions to builtin/blame.c (the current patches don't qualify as such > really) that > > a) builtin/blame.c is licensed under GPLv2 > b) significant contributions to it will not be relicensed under > different licenses without the respective contributors' explicit > consent. Yep, that's how it works. [...] > The combination of the SubmittingPatches text with the file notices in > builtin/blame.c is not really painting a full picture of the situation. Any idea how this could be made more clear? E.g., maybe we should bite the bullet and add a line to all source files that don't already state a license: /* * License: GPLv2. See COPYING for details. */