On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 04:12:01PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 4:01 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > You know, I didn't even look at the LICENSE file, since it said MIT and > > had a link here. It would be trivial to copy it over, too, of course. > > You should do it. It's just good to be careful and clear with > licenses, and the license text does require that the copyright notice > and permission file should be included in copies. > > My patch did it. "Pats self on head". And that's why yours crossed the 100K barrier. :) But yeah, I agree it is better to be safe (and that's we should contact the authors). I'll point them out-of-band to this thread, and cc them if it ends up being re-rolled. -Peff