On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 11:52:39AM -0500, David Starner wrote: > In real life, the vast majority of the people will contribute the patches back > under both licenses. In many cases, they don't really have much choice; changes on the scale of bugfixes or small feature enhancements are easily derived works, with corresponding status under copyright law. That said, I don't know of any case law on point that addresses issues of when a modification to source code is signficiant enough to be independently copyrightable. Still, it's important to keep in mind that a one-line patch is not independently copyrightable by the submitter. It is a derived work, and so copyright for that patch belongs to the author of the original source (or his designee). -- G. Branden Robinson | It doesn't matter what you are doing, Debian GNU/Linux | emacs is always overkill. branden@ecn.purdue.edu | -- Stephen J. Carpenter roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
Attachment:
pgp6QLIF7PAnK.pgp
Description: PGP signature