Is there a license on patches

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

On Nov 12, 2007, at 5:22 AM, Anders F Björklund wrote:

> 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


	Thanks for the link to that ticket Anders, most useful!

	And yes, I meant patches against base when I asked about a way to  
enforce/require a particular license for submitted patches. It would  
be great to know if it's suitable to ask that, and if so how we can  
make it clear (ideally the HACKING file for the time being). Anyone  
care to advise on the proper wording?

	Hint, the HACKING file already has this:

* A copyright notice attributed to our group name, "The MacPorts  
Project", should also be added to these source files (if not already  
there) if they're
   being uploaded to the "base" component of our repository, since as  
such they are being contributed to the project.

	Regards,...


-jmpp