From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Samuel Bronson Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add -*- gdb-script -*- to the top of gdbhelpers, for Emacs Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 13:36:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1243784652-31802-1-git-send-email-naesten@gmail.com> <5b5833aa0906011026p11eacb23y2f8326312a61fc22@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.241]:63350 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751029AbZFARg6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jun 2009 13:36:58 -0400 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d40so16022881and.1 for ; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:36:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5b5833aa0906011026p11eacb23y2f8326312a61fc22@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-sparse-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org To: Anderson Lizardo Cc: Alexey Zaytsev , linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Anderson Lizardo wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Samuel Bronson wrote: >> I just don't feel comfortable contributing under the OSL 1.1, for some >> reason -- possibly because it's considered non-DFSG, possibly because >> it's even more restrictive than the GPL ... > > If you look at the recent mailing list archives, you will find that a > particular snapshot of the git tree was relicensed by the original > copyright holder (Transmeta?) under the MIT license. It seems the > current developers intend to check with the other copyright holders > (for code commited after the particular relicensed snapshot) for a > license change. > > So I would you suggest at least using the MIT license to not "pollute" > the code with yet another license... Oh, sure, that's fine with me! Hadn't heard about that. The MIT/X11 license is almost the same as the ISC license. Go ahead and s/ISC license/MIT license/ in these patches, though I don't think either of the patches that actually work (1/3 and 3/3) give me copyright on any code anyway.