On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:35:44PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > No, he doesn't have to do anything at all with his patches. They aren't > the FSF's to define the license for. For ONLY the work he authored or > has the rights of authorship in, he may do whatever he wishes with it.
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