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? Well, I personally would prefer that: 1) copyright is not asserted in a file until a substantially expressive change has been made to a file; and 2) that any file containing such a substanially expressive change bear an accurate copyright notice. -- G. Branden Robinson | A committee is a life form with six Debian GNU/Linux | or more legs and no brain. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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