[aur-dev] AUR 4 and licensing

[Doug Newgard]

On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 16:25:04 +0200
Lukas Fleischer <lfleischer at archlinux.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 at 01:47:10, Johannes Löthberg wrote:
> > [...]
> > To mitigate this I’d propose making a ToS for the AUR that for one says 
> > that the user agrees to either license the PKGBUILD and accompanying 
> > scripts under a specific license, or that they agree to assign copyright 
> > to Arch Linux.
> > 
> > While it wouldn’t be possible to apply it to the packages already 
> > upload, I’d suggest implementing this change during the migration to AUR 
> > 4.0.0 when the official AUR will be started afresh, causing all newly 
> > uploaded packages to fall under the ToS.
> > [...]
> 
> I like this idea. GPL3 is probably the best choice, given that we
> already use the GPL for most projects.
> 
> Since we are not going to remove any accounts when moving to AUR 4.0.0,
> I suggest showing the ToS when registering and when logging into the AUR
> for the first time (unless they were already accepted previously).

How would this work with patches? If you have to cherry-pick a patch from
upstream after a release, you can't just relicense it like that.