Restriction on distribution by Novell?

Matthew Flaschen superm40 at comcast.net
Wed Sep 27 20:16:41 UTC 2006


John Cowan wrote:
> I think that would be fair use of the original if anything is.
> The contents of the original are not there for their own sake,
> but as indicators of where to patch.
> 

Diffs for GPL code are clearly under the GPL.  Even if you excuse the 
lines that are included only as markers, the whole diff is based on two 
GPL-licensed programs.  Thus, it is itself under the GPL.

Matthew Flaschen



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