Trying to put LO Firebird patches upstream, license issue?

Kaganski Mike mikekaganski at hotmail.com
Mon Feb 4 19:48:10 UTC 2019


Hi,

On 04.02.2019 22:36, julien2412 wrote:
> Following my abandoning of Firebird 3.0.4 upgrade, I wonder if it may help
> to try to submit some LO Firebird patches upstream.
> For example, Cygwin  is still not present in configure.ac file of Firebird
> master sources.
> Is it ok to submit a patch or is there license/agreement issue to take into
> account?

Well - since our patches are modifications to Firebird, which requires 
all modifications to have IDPL licensing, then all our modifications 
cannot be under a different license? (And I seem to remember something 
in these lines from some recent discussion here.)

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Best regards,
Mike Kaganski


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