On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 06:24:21PM -0800, Daniel Stone wrote: > 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? That's the point: the example quoted was not in context. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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