On 2013-12-07 21:20:26 +0100, Rejo Zenger wrote:This patch was originaly written by Dale Woolridge for mutt versions 1.5.3 to 1.5.6. Dale Woolridge didn't mention the license under which he released his patch to the public. I have taken the liberty to release this patch under a GPLv2 license.That's not even close to how copyright works (q.v. Berne Convention). Go ask the copyright holder what license it is under, or don't do anything at all.
The existing patches by Dale Woolridge, and made publically available* are patches for mutt to enhance its functionality. They are thus a derivative work. As mutt is GPLv2 licensed, so must derivative works be, even when Dale's patches do not contain any copyright or license information. The only exception I can think of that would change the situation is if Dale somehow was able to obtain the mutt source code under different license conditions from GPL, which I think of as highly unlikely.
I believe Rejo is within rights to publish these modified patches under a GPLv2 license. IATNAL.
Remco [*] http://www.woolridge.ca/mutt/
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