[copyleft-next] copyleft-next 0.3.0 released

Richard Fontana fontana at sharpeleven.org
Tue May 21 03:31:19 UTC 2013


On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:57:44AM -0400, W. Trevor King wrote:
> This sort of thing makes me want to ask for commit message tags like:
> 
>   Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random at developer.example.org>
>   License: copyleft-next 0.3.0[, possible additional licenses]
>   Syntax: signed-off-by x.y.z
> 
> Then you could safely cherry-pick commits with compatible licenses,
> without having to worry about the context in the project you're
> cherry-picking from.  It would also make it easy to audit the project:
> 
>   $ git log | grep '^License:' | sort | uniq
> 
> I can dream ;).

I think Bradley Kuhn (say, where is ...) once proposed something
similar to this.

 - RF


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