On 16 October 2015 at 17:50, Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: [...] > Canonical's IP policy is weird, and it is not clear to me that a patch > necessarily has to be MIT licensed to be accepted into Ubuntu's > Twisted, since Ubuntu itself is a commercial work.
Instinctively I would assume that Ubuntu would reject patches that would also be rejected by upstream on licensing grounds. It's in Ubuntu's and Canonical's interest to contribute upstream, and meddling with licenses would hamper that. The "weird" IP policy thing might be about things for which Canonical is the upstream, but I honestly don't know much about that and definitely cannot speak authoritatively. To confirm, LaMont -- who submitted the patch under question into Ubuntu -- did ask our team's management, and the answer was that Canonical has no interest in keeping that patch from going upstream, under whatever license applies to Twisted. Gavin. _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
