Re: Patches from XFree86

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

Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote:
>> 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 cha=
> nge has
>    been made to a file; and

For some people, this appears to be simply by renaming things.

> 2) that any file containing such a substanially expressive change bear
>    an accurate copyright notice.

;-)

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