Rails - Aug 2006 - Re: Legality of using refused patches?

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006, Jake Cutter wrote:
> This brings up a good question...if a patch were accepted, it would
> be licensed along with Rails. BUT, because it was rejected, what are the
> legal implications of using it?
Contributing a patch implies that the author is willing to have that
code licenses under the terms of the license the project to which he is
contributing uses.

I don''t know if that would stand up in court (ask a lawyer, not a
mailing list ;)) but I imagine it''s safe to use.

Ben

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> Contributing a patch implies that the author is willing to have that
> code licenses under the terms of the license the project to which he is
> contributing uses.
It''s that whole "implies" thing that''s iffy.  :)

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