On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Wolfram Sang <w.sang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > >> We certainly don't want the policy to be against the common practice >> of the community. If it is we can consider changing our policy. > > Nice, thanks for being open to discussion! > >> However I can't find a clear message stating the consensus of what the >> Linux kernel community think of adding copyright claims. I even found > > Well, what I know, the consensus is "common sense". What is obviously > not "clear" in a way you could write it down. At least, Ben agrees. > We do honor your point and can be flexible on this. I'm just not sure if our policy need to be changed to align with the common sense of the community. >> some message that encourage adding copyright to maintain the GPL >> license. > > I am interested. Do you have a link? Well. I can't find the exact message. I remember it is from an email discussion in which someone said by encouraging contributors to add copyright claims to a file it would be clear that no one can change the license of the file away from GPL. - Leo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
