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by makomk 3550 days ago
I imagine that issue will give some lawyers a hell of a time if it comes up, because by sending someone a pull request on GitHub you're actually sending them a copy of the modified file including any header claiming that the contents are under the MIT license or whatever other license it was under - even though the pull request displayed as a simple diff. Except that behind the scenes it may be stored as some kind of diff again.