Re: [PATCH 0/2] Two janitorial patches for builtin/blame.c

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 21, 2014, 17:44 UTC
Message-ID: <20140121174448.GG18964@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <874n4xqlly.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

David Kastrup wrote:

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> So my understanding is that when we are talking about _significant_
> additions to builtin/blame.c (the current patches don't qualify as such
> really) that
>
> a) builtin/blame.c is licensed under GPLv2
> b) significant contributions to it will not be relicensed under
> different licenses without the respective contributors' explicit
> consent.

Yep, that's how it works.

[...]

> The combination of the SubmittingPatches text with the file notices in
> builtin/blame.c is not really painting a full picture of the situation.

Any idea how this could be made more clear? E.g., maybe we should bite the bullet and add a line to all source files that don't already state a license:

	/*
	 * License: GPLv2.  See COPYING for details.
	 */