What's the license of external library?

Caolán McNamara caolanm at redhat.com
Fri Dec 9 09:12:01 UTC 2022


On Fri, 2022-12-09 at 08:58 +0900, taichi wrote:
> What license is applied to *.patch* files in the external/[library
> name] directory?
> 
> 1. the MPLv2
> 2. the license of each library (including MPLv2)

It depends where the patch came from. If they are backports from the
upstream[1] then its the upstream license. If its added by one of our
contributors it defaults to our usual license (which the contributor
has stated is the case for their contributions at some point in the
past), but any sensible person will want to allow those patches to be
merged upstream if such a merge makes sense so feel free to clarify
that if necessary.

[1] like external/harfbuzz/0001-font-Respect-subfont-slant-setting-in-
hb-draw.patch.1



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