From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.6 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_BLOCKED, SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BC211F86C for ; Tue, 1 Dec 2020 23:05:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726731AbgLAXEm (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2020 18:04:42 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:41428 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726167AbgLAXEl (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2020 18:04:41 -0500 Received: from mail-wr1-x443.google.com (mail-wr1-x443.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::443]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 65A60C0613D6 for ; Tue, 1 Dec 2020 15:04:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-wr1-x443.google.com with SMTP id z7so5522035wrn.3 for ; Tue, 01 Dec 2020 15:04:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=XHgWq2eht2+AtGkeUtZRDtkMEJi0SaeKPJlA6+Jm/YA=; b=IoO7FsGoxhhnfhwncWlQLnU11bTNYpKZ5F8x0HrXlVqV3zPH0QO7ix6pj5S9QIW05e DIJTL7dyWfk8zwyJKW7TAWegShq3Qvopd1t9rRPRI3gZjMd+/QNkLeMkdNBy//3PSq5A FrbjomQy/taOsQxuTPQSplcii9+FVQnTplW/uek9wFrR8tkvEN5uIhmfEczDRMRpALUu eR0/O+7FLb6W+n2q1Em8ikjL2rS6LBZLnT+SuaAWenI5m3W8MY31xlRlT7papv1n7uh8 7CfQoVvTIIAlC7LnSjXA1upkR30eMckzYDKxKCWx5uJPfsAueRHKn/JgFbOTUKxJah9u blCg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=XHgWq2eht2+AtGkeUtZRDtkMEJi0SaeKPJlA6+Jm/YA=; b=gOBEqcYeSbZj5c7vfW7LTQhp/8JXRyDw/k37A8GGhHiojPjY25XKKkwpWhVGxumFF2 V79oEdvBvaZ00LJFuc3DZnnzC8GueVl8v0tpaiPtIHo7edxpxJu0X9AGZaoij7kycIIf 0hv8pJpPsOyptIgdYpuSlZTiM3MflC9c3o+xKhNQRUQlfnIZcY9PtjdqXBktjzEmjC6r Oi2+ZKZjHl1+qn7ywY3KBb5tSfk+rdZT91wUXsLdt583qMmZXmBqEHzCeIrqrPJ9tqMZ ZTl4myvBsXyjmVEt4IHbB5NqX7vKAGxG+NfLKDg4aalYRcOUNG+TUsM11LuZKV03r9JQ xQWw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532/4LcNcZf1sQiQxX40xX+5jzleUZmoOWXjwM4lMwj84whQJ3Hh h4ZLBgiAu3JOS5/PE/q8A9UlvWsY6F2AOrNHbLw= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJxhDDK8odY7uSjGafJswIMUM27546oQ0vQFfMBU/tpOs2PQuOawLjLMlxXVtUFC1JMEG1kKdWr3adaKe7K+1i4= X-Received: by 2002:a5d:474f:: with SMTP id o15mr6976886wrs.100.1606863840184; Tue, 01 Dec 2020 15:04:00 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <91c3ac2449edc45db643b0ba6cba66ef31176600.1606419752.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> <87lfennln8.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> <87wny1vjg0.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <87wny1vjg0.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> From: Felipe Contreras Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 17:03:48 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 03/16] reftable: add LICENSE To: =?UTF-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsCBCamFybWFzb24=?= Cc: Han-Wen Nienhuys , Han-Wen Nienhuys via GitGitGadget , git , Jeff King , Ramsay Jones , Jonathan Nieder , Johannes Schindelin , Jonathan Tan , Josh Steadmon , Emily Shaffer , Patrick Steinhardt , Han-Wen Nienhuys Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 5:45 AM =C3=86var Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0 Bjarmason wrote: > Assigning copyright to Google is a way around that. They own your work, > and then they re-license it under whatever license those two projects > use. That's the default. Unless otherwise stated; you retain the copyright while contributing code to open source projects. Generally when open source projects want to change license they have to get the agreement from the majority of copyright holders. Some projects do ask you to give away your copyright, but I'm not comfortable with that. If I want to contribute my code with GPLv2, that's the license I want. If a project I contribute to wants to switch to GPLv3, then they have to remove my code (or do something illegal). So I see nothing wrong with Google owning the copyright and controlling under which license(s) their code is distributed. In fact, I would see something wrong with the opposite; them giving away their copyright. Cheers. --=20 Felipe Contreras