On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 01:59:20AM -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote: > 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? You just have to make a judgement call at the time: are you writing a whole new, complicated, extension, or are you changing an instance of strcpy to strncpy? -- Daniel Stone <daniels@debian.org> Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debian.org
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