On 2013-12-08 07:05:42 +0100, Remco Rijnders wrote: > The existing patches by Dale Woolridge, and made publically available* are > patches for mutt to enhance its functionality. They are thus a derivative > work.
There are arguments that I could imagine one could make about patches as "derivative work" that would make this appropriate for legal precedent, not a mailing list thread where none of us are lawyers. Either way, I don't think it's appropriate to assert a license without successfully contacting the original author. If it was appropriate, other projects under the GPL would be happy to merge arbitrary changes in with their code without having to have it explicitly released. That's not (generally) the case. Those projects are also the ones with lawyers.
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