Sergei Golubchik <serg@mariadb.org> writes:
Was it under GPLv2, that would've been enough.
Ok, this is good to know. So if a patch is made available only under GPLv2, not BSD or MCA, it can still be included in MariaDB, same as any other contribution.
So, indeed, the standard request is "please contribute under MCA or BSD-new".
It is ok to ask, of course. I am sure many contributers are fine with this. But it would be good to clarify that in the end, it is up to the choice of the contributer. I am sure I am not the only one who is confused by the current requests for licence from contributers. "The MariaDB Foundation needs" is different from "The MariaDB Foundation suggests".
But this is unrelated to the contribution that we're talking about. It
I hope it was clear that I am not interested in this particular patch, I was trying to point out a general issue. - Kristian.