On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 07:08:51PM +0000, Sylvain Le Gall wrote:
> I am not sure that every patches I have done are compliant with upstream
> LICENSE... However, I think that "few lines" patches are mostly
> irrelevent WRT license in general -- i.e. it is ok to provide a few line
> patches without copyright/license.
Yes, and usually it is because you cannot claim copyright on something
so small and so tied to something else copyrightable. Otherwise
stated, you "inherit" the license _and_ copyright of what you are
changing and it cannot be otherwise.
Cheers.
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