Re: Proposed ACPI Licensing change

From: Adrian Bunk (bunk@fs.tum.de)
Date: Fri Dec 06 2002 - 20:06:02 EST


On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 04:36:13PM -0800, David Schwartz wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 01:24:06 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> >You can't forbid people to send GPL-only patches, so if a person doesn't
> >want his patch under your looser license you can't enforce that he also
> >releases it under your looser license.
>
> No, but then you just reject the patch.

Surely.

> DS

cu
Adrian

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