Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:47:45 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: Reiser{3,4}: problem with the copyright statement |
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On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 01:59:37PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I have no problem with dual-licensed code, but I do strongly dislike > > having this "unlike you explicitley state otherwise, you transfer all > > rights to Hans Reiser" in the kernel. > > I don't see any reasonable alternatives. The alternative is for Hans > Reiser to not be able to merge with the kernel, which is kind of against > the _point_ of having a dual license.
If you touch e.g. XFS for a non-trivial change you'll also get a mail from SGI politely asking to assign your copyright. Doing this implicit is IMHO a reall bad thing.
IF you really think it's something we should do the least thing to do is to put a BIG WAIVER into every file for which this is in effect.
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