Draft: License policy for contributors
Jeremy C. Reed
reed at reedmedia.net
Tue Dec 2 11:28:43 PST 2008
Thank you for doing this. One comment below.
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Adam Jackson wrote:
> For small changes, including patches sent through a bug tracker or
> mailing list, changes are assumed to be under the MIT license. If you
s/MIT license/same original license or usage statement of the original file/
Because some code is not under MIT license. Some is public domain. A lot
are BSD-style/ISC-style/MIT-compatible licenses but worded different from
the definitive example to be shown in this "policy". Also (sadly) some is
GPL'd.
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