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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 03:30:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
cc: Balbir Singh <balbir_soni@yahoo.com>,
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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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