On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 03:01:58PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 10:52:54 -0700
"Bradley M. Kuhn" [off-list ref] wrote:
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Joe Perches wrote:
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You can ask but it's the submitter's choice to license their code however
they desire.
… to which I'd add, as long as the license is GPLv2-only-compatible, which of
course (GPLv2-only|copyleft-next) is.
I agree with Joe on this, but I have to ask; What happens when someone
makes a change to this file? The default kernel license is GPL-v2. Does this
change automatically become the same as the file itself, or is the new
change under the dual license?
I've made changes to code that had a dual license that wasn't GPL
compatible, and the company involved asked me to sign off on the other
license (which I did).
The Signed-off-by tag implies you are making a contribution under the
same license as the license file states. The more people are aware of
this fact, the better, and its then why we made DCO a public thing and
now other projects embrace it.
Luis