On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 15:36:25 -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > It's certainly possible for contributions to be so minor that they gain > no copyright. I _do_ _not_ _know_ about what level of contributions we talk to. Whether they have been one-line fixes of bugs or typos, dozens of lines, or even entire files. With more than "minor" contributions, typically the contributed work is credited/honoured appropriately, either by listing a contributor as a project developer or with proper attributions in the files or the documentation. However, often one proposes a patch, and a developer doesn't _copy_ it verbatim, but applies something similar. I'm really not interested in legal pedantry that any contributor, who managed to get a few lines of code copied by the project developers, might return years later with an interest in defending copyright. > But this determination can be complicated and fact > specific. Certainly the dividing line is not one of updating the copyright > headers. Hence I pointed out that a general problem has been to keep track of who contributed what and whether previous contributions are still found in the code. If they are not found in the code anymore (or not substantial enough anymore), there is nothing left for past copyright holders to claim. -- Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) - Linux 3.4.4-5.fc17.x86_64 loadavg: 0.13 0.47 0.58 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
