[nanomsg] Re: MIT Licensing
- From: Martin Sustrik <sustrik@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: nanomsg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 18:33:41 +0200
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I quite like the linux kernel model. You have a developers' agreement
somewhere on the web and individual contributors sign the patches off
when committing to git:
git commit -s
Easy and efficient.
Would people on the list prefer this model?
Martin
On 30/05/14 18:24, John D. Mitchell wrote:
> That's pretty iffy. Much better to have explicit contributor
> agreements for each person.
>
> Cheers, John
>
> On May 30, 2014, at 07:33 , Garrett D'Amore <garrett@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> It doesn't. But if the existing file is licensed under MIT and
>> no new notice is placed with the copyright addition then I think
>> the common convention is to assume that the new changes are
>> licensed under the same existing license. Now changing the
>> license would be a different matter and in that case a new notice
>> in the file would be needed.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On May 30, 2014, at 12:19 AM, Martin Sustrik
>>> <sustrik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
> Hi Garrett,
>
>>>>> Well, I'm not the package maintainers. But for those
>>>>> packages that I do maintain (illumos, mangos, etc.) I ask
>>>>> that contributors update the copyright statements in the
>>>>> files that they are updating as part of their patch
>>>>> submission.
>
> Are you sure it works that way? I am not a lawyer, but my feeling
> is that claiming a copyright on the file doesn't necessarily mean
> you are providing your patched under the MIT license...
>
> Martin
>
>>>
>>
>
>
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