Re: request-tracker3: licence problem
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 09:24:23AM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> I'm not certain most bug-fix patches are copyrightable -- for example,
> if an author has typed "if (x = 0) ..." and I fix that to "if (0 == x)
> ..." then I haven't really contributed anything creative, and I don't
> think I own any copyright in the result.
I agree with that.
> For larger patches, which really do have creative content, this could
> be a serious problem. I imagine that BP would be interested to talk
> about this, since sacrificing user bug reports is a serious cost.
That's the ones they should worry about losing. They should certainly be
made aware of it, and (very importantly) so should the Debian
maintainer.
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