Removing code doesn't really solve the problem
Removing code doesn't really solve the problem
Posted Aug 29, 2017 22:36 UTC (Tue) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)In reply to: Removing code doesn't really solve the problem by Cyberax
Parent article: Patrick McHardy and copyright profiteering (Opensource.com)
> GPL requires for the whole derived work to be distributed under the terms no more restrictive than GPL.
No, specifically under the terms of the GPL - you can't be more restrictive *or* more liberal.
> But it's perfectly fine to have patch _themselves_ to be under BSD/MIT.
I think that's only the case if there's an argument that the patch itself isn't a derived work of the kernel.