On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 09:40:03AM -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote: > >> Would you prefer that they start asserting copyright once they've completely > >> rewritten the code? > > > Well, I personally would prefer that: > > > 1) copyright is not asserted in a file until a substantially expressive cha= > > nge has > > been made to a file; and > > For some people, this appears to be simply by renaming things. Sometimes things get renamed because a copyright license requires them to be renamed upon modification (see some versions of the Apache Software License), or because a trademark is asserted on the name. These are separate issues, and should not be conflated. -- G. Branden Robinson | The last Christian died on the Debian GNU/Linux | cross. branden@debian.org | -- Friedrich Nietzsche http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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