Re: the new IglooFTP license
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 11:35:41PM -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Samuel Hocevar <sam@via.ecp.fr> writes:
>
> I'm quite curious about this: if a piece of code is released
> under no license, doesn't the author keep all the rights on the
> code ?
>
> Yes.
But only if the patch is substantial enough in itself to be protected by
copyright.
Oneliners like
-if (symbol) {
+if (!symbol) {
are not substantial patches.
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Brian Ristuccia
brianr@osiris.978.org
bristucc@nortelnetworks.com
bristucc@cs.uml.edu
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