On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:00:09PM -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Our guidelines for patches [1] for Linux-wireless has been updated. > One section asks Linux-wireless developers to subscribe to the patch > guideline wiki page (section 2) and another which introduces the new > 'Changes-licensed-under' (section 10). > > Here I'll cover the new 'Changes-licensed-under' tag but please refer > to the link and subscribe to the page for the complete details and for > further changes. > > -- > > Based on the new guidelines posted by the SFLC on ''Maintaining > Permissive-Licensed Files in a GPL-Licensed Project: Guidelines for > Developers'' [2], specifically section 5, we are introducing a new tag > for use with patches which deal with files licensed under permissive > licenses (BSD, ISC) on Linux wireless in our larger GPL project, the > Linux kernel. The tag is Changes-licensed-under and can be used by > developers to clarify the intended license for their patch on > permissive licensed files. It is clear that not all changes qualify a > patch author for Copyright but a lot of patches do qualify an author > for copyright. If you want crystal clear details of what constitutes > as a copyrightable change, at least within the US and the EU, you can > refer to SFLC's ''Originality Requirements under U.S. and E.U. > Copyright Law'' [3]. > > Although some developers have a practice of implying their patches for > a permissive licensed file abides by the respective permissive license > of the file being patched, and although some changes are obviously not > copyrightable, we would like to ''err on the side of caution'', take > the advice from SFLC, and introduce Changes-licensed-under in order to > help the BSD family reap benefits of our contributions to permissive > licensed files. > > The Changes-licensed-under tag should be put before the Signed-off-by > tag. Since this tag is used to cover changes under permissive licenses > example of possible licenses are 3-Clause-BSD, and ISC. If you are > making changes to multiple permissive licensed files then please > specify which license covers what files. > > -- > > For examples of using this tag please refer to the guidelines. > > [1] http://linuxwireless.org/en/developers/SubmittingPatches > [2] http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-collaboration.html > [3] http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/originality-requirements.html Please, keep this tagged SFLC-waving somewhere out of mainline. Thank you. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
