Synaptics MIT license, again

John Hughes john at Calva.COM
Tue May 22 06:39:25 PDT 2007


Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>
>   
>> On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 08:58:41AM +0100, Carlos Corbacho wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> This actually brings up a slightly more subtle problem, the "Have we
>>> therefore actually found _all_ the developers": You're not listed on the
>>> ChangeLog[1] or Credits for Synaptics, so given you've managed to be missed
>>> off these, then who else has contributed and isn't logged or credited? If
>>> anyone is left out of agreeing to a licensing change, then any relicensing
>>> is obviously bogus by default.
>>>       
>> The patch was only committed last week, so you'd need to check the git
>> log.
>>     
>
> ah.  So it's not a problem.  They can discard your patch and deal with 
> people who want to cooperate.
>   
Shush, you'll make him angry.




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