Hi Dmitry, On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 06:17:56PM +0300, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: > Can I ask you to forward it to upstream Gerrit [1] (see [2] for the > instruction)? Unfortunately, upstream requires the patch author to sign a > CLA so I cannot easily forward it under my account. Alternatively, you may > publicly state that you license your patch under a permissive license > (e.g. BSD), which should also work (but upstream does not like this much).
I looked and the process is waaay to beyond what I can do. I'm not up to consenting to a 10-page TOS for a 5-line patch. Sorry. The 5-page CLA doesn't make this any better. Not a friendly project to contribute to. Your suggestion to explicitly license it under BSD seems much more reasonable to me. Let's do that. However, given that I find you much more trustworthy than QT upstream, I think that there is an even simpler option: Please treat the patch I sent to this bug as yours. You may claim authorship. I think legally that means I transfer whatever copyright I may have on this particular patch to you after licensing it under BSD. Helmut
