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Re: The QPL



Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca> 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?

He wouldn't need to.  Fair use lets you use it as-is.  Copyright doesn't
offer any significant protection on trivial works.

-- 
Raul


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