Re: Patches from XFree86

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net>]

Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote:

> In many cases, this copyright is attached even to changes as simple as
> the following hypothetical example:

Having observed too many "extensive rewrite" changelog comments which were
little more than cosmetic changes, it's hard to say where to draw the line
(just follow freshmeat for a while).

Would you prefer that they start asserting copyright once they've completely
rewritten the code?

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