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Here is a question: How do you handle merging someone else patch into your dual-licensed project? The GitHub hosted code is GPL, but your other code license i

Here is a question: How do you handle merging someone else patch into your dual-licensed project? The GitHub hosted code is GPL, but your other code license is for commercial projects (you charge a fee for the NON-GPL license). Obviously, the patch is based on the GPL project, but you don't have copyright on that patch (to be able to merge it into the non-GPL codebase). Do you ask the contributer to give you the copyright? What if it's a simple bug fix that's only a few characters? What if the contributer says no? Is there a way to make this happen smoothly?

desas 15y ago
1. Yes 2. See http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/originality-requirements.html http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/originality-re... 3. If it can only be written one way then it's not copyrightable ianal. 4. Canonical and others require that you fax/email a signed document to them e.g. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/oca-486395.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/oca-486395.html