[License-review] For Legacy Approval: LBNL BSD

[Henrik Ingo]

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 5:10 PM Brendan Hickey
<brendan.m.hickey at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2019, 05:14 Henrik Ingo <henrik.ingo at avoinelama.fi> wrote:
>>
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>> 2. License-as-contributor-agreement - [snip] when I add code to a git repo
>> that has a BSD license, the code becomes also BSD licensed. This seems
>> to me more like a clarification for use cases such as emailing a
>> standalone patch without specifying a license.
>
>
> Does this actually happen or is this the outcome that we want? Linux uses the signed-off line in Git. On most rust repositories you'll see a language to the effect that intentionally submitted code is Apache2 licensed.
>

Consider this typical workflow:
- I clone a git repository to my laptop
- repository has a LICENSE file that is the BSD
- I add my own code to some files. The file headers also say the license is BSD.
- I push my repo to github

Clearly I have now published my own code under LICENSE. (Not
disagreeing that a signed-off line is better, but clearly that's a
minority of the population.)

> During discussion of the C-FSL, someone pointed out that licenses are insufficient for copyright assignment.

Correct. In above example, I have released my software under a
license, but have not assigned my copyright to anyone else.

henrik
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