Is there a license on patches

Anders F Björklund afb at macports.org
Mon Nov 12 01:22:55 PST 2007


Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:

> 	But I don't know if we could go as far as requesting/enforcing that 
> submitted patches be under the BSD license.

A lot of the current *port* patches are under different licenses (such 
as the GPL license), so that would not be really doable without first 
checking all the patchfiles and ports.

Requesting that patches to *base* is under the same BSD license as the 
MP code is perfectly good and normal, though. Patches to ports are 
assumed to be under some Unknown license:

http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/7493

--anders



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