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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:47:29 +0100
From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
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To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
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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. :-/

Helge Hafting
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