Wietse Venema via Postfix-users:
> Sad Clouds via Postfix-users:
> > On Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:01:05 -0400 (EDT)
> > Wietse Venema via Postfix-users <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > A human contributor could try to do the same thing. Fortunately,
> > > Postfix code is stupidly simple, so I do not worry too much that
> > > some seekrit algorithm will be pasted into Postfix.
> >
> > It is the legal aspect of the copyrighted code that concerns me rather
> > than anything to do with secrecy. For example, it would be possible for
> > AI to generate copy and paste algorithms from the Linux kernel which
> > falls under GPL V2 license. If you are merging this patch into BSD code
> > for example, the two licenses are incompatible and it may be difficult
> > to identify where these code fragments came from, that is until some
> > later time when you get hit with a copyright-license violation.
>
> You did not (want to) read my reply. Go satisfy yourself elsewhere.
I could have said it more diplomatically: for reasons already stated,
your concerns about pasting entire GPL2 Linux kernel algorithms
into GPL2-incompatible code are wildly off base in the context of
the Postfix project. So take your fight elsewhere.
Wietse
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