Re: Source Code One Line Change [patch] and Copyright holder

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

]] "Nanakos V. Chrysostomos" 

| recently I have contributed a on-line patch [0] that resolves a
| significant and major security bug in a PAM module. I added myself to the
| Copyright holders of the file and added this change to the changelog file
| as you can easily see in [1]. The upstream author and developer of this
| software claims that I am not intended to add my name for such a small
| change to the Copyright holders of the file and he should ask for legal
| advise. What is your opinion? Is this right?

I think he's in the right, your contribution does not really consist of
any significant creative effort.

I'm also unable to reproduce your bug.

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Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are