Re: Re: What's the license of external library?

taichi 20001722 at ymail.ne.jp
Fri Dec 9 09:49:45 UTC 2022


What should I do to clarify?

> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> From: "Caolán McNamara" <caolanm at redhat.com>
> To: "taichi" <20001722 at ymail.ne.jp>; "libreoffice at lists.freedesktop.org" <libreoffice at lists.freedesktop.org>
> Date: 2022/12/09 金 18:12
> Subject: Re: What's the license of external library?
> 
> 
> 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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