On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 20:21:02 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 09:17:02PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > and arbitrary other people, who get their patch contributions merged, > > don't gain any copyright protection on the file or the proper parts of it, > > I don't think this is true. Without proper attribution, e.g. in a commit message [of the merge done by a _different_ person] or in the preamble or inline, without a contributor explicitly requesting to be credited _anywhere at all_, how to keep track of the individual copyright holders who actually do want to keep their copyright related rights? How to distinguish from [patch] contributors, who don't care and who don't request credits and a copyright notice to be added to the file? Anyway, you might want to talk to the Audacious developers as well as a lawyer. It might boil down to the [patch] contributor having to explicitly waive their rights when submitting their work to avoid a misunderstanding. And that might be considered legal pedantry. -- Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) - Linux 3.4.4-5.fc17.x86_64 loadavg: 0.51 0.69 0.73 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
