Re: The QPL

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 01:54:17PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > 
> > But you say below that he doesn't expect a significant amount
> > of patches.  Make up your mind ;-)
> 
> Doesn't make a difference right?  The _worst_ case is someone
> sending in a GPL'ed patch like `on line 3456 of gri.c the foreach
> loop should go to n-1 instead of n'.  How could he re-write that
> patch?

That's the reason why you can't copyright such a small thing. You can only
copyright substantially amount of work.

Thanks,
Marcus

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