On Nov 8, 2007, at 08:58, Emmanuel Hainry wrote:
Dear list, For a port I maintain (namely rubber), there are some patchesthat upstream has not yet included and are provided by the maintainer ofthe port for pkgsrc. They are now in macports repository and I wonder which license if any is applied to patches (as Trac.macports.org tellspeople that what they put here is automatically under the Apache or BSD License). Is there a way to credit the author of a patch and to cite thelicense they may be under? This problem (but is it a problem?) is, I think, not a rare thing: the work of preparing a program to be part of a ports project is verysimilar between pkgsrc, openBSD, freeBSD and macports (maybe gentoo andother linux source based packages too) and hence reusing patches from others is highly probable.
For what it's worth, it's my assumption that any patches I write are licensed under the same license as the project. I also do not claim copyright unless
the patch is a substantial piece of work.I'd assume this is the general rule, as anything else can quickly run into
license complications. -landonf
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