Re: Anton's amendment

[Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> wrote:

> This is not allowed.

Mm?

> The license of work 1 requires you to distribute the sources of the
> combined work in the form original_work_1+patch_for_work_1.  In the
> same time the sources of the combined work should be distributed in
> the form original_work_2+patch_for_work_2.

What license do you believe work 1 to be under? Most patch clauses do
nothing to forbid this. As an example, older versions of the QPL used:

"You may make modifications to the Software and distribute your
modifications, in a form that is separate from the Software, such as
patches."

So a patch that contains elements of work 1 and work 2 is perfectly
permissable - the only thing the clause requires is that you distribute
unmodified source code and apply modifications to that. It doesn't state
what form the modifications must be in.

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