Re: Mixing GPL and non-copyleft code in source files

[Wojtek Kosior]

Thanks for the response

> Could you publish your diffs elsewhere with an appropriate note that
> they are also available under CC-0 from there?

Well, that's more or less what I am already doing with a public git
repo for my fork — except I'm not sure how an "appropriate note" would
look like.  Where do you imagine it?  In a commit message?  Elsewhere?

> > I'd like the lines of code I authored to be dual-licensed under
> > GPL-3.0-or-later and CC0-1.0.  This is purely for personal reasons (as
> > having a mere few dozens of lines in a project under CC0 causes no
> > practical change to the project).  
> 
> As someone who grew up under Microshaft's dominance of the PC market,
> I'm not sure I agree with that characterization. Someone who choses the
> GPL for a project is probably opposed to CC-0 for that project.

I see.  I believe we have similar experiences and similar moral rating
of Microsoft's actions — and just different attitude to making use of
legal force :)

"no practical change" was meant to mean that it would still be
impossible to integrate said project into a proprietary product.  One
would need to obtain a non-copyleft license from other ~1071
contributors.  Or slightly fewer but still…

Best
Wojtek

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On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 10:00:32 -0800 Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> 
wrote:

> > I'd like the lines of code I authored to be dual-licensed under
> > GPL-3.0-or-later and CC0-1.0.  This is purely for personal reasons (as
> > having a mere few dozens of lines in a project under CC0 causes no
> > practical change to the project).  
> 
> As someone who grew up under Microshaft's dominance of the PC market,
> I'm not sure I agree with that characterization. Someone who choses the
> GPL for a project is probably opposed to CC-0 for that project.
> 
> Could you publish your diffs elsewhere with an appropriate note that
> they are also available under CC-0 from there?

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