On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 15:30 -0400, Tom Callaway wrote: > On 07/09/2012 03:21 PM, Matthew Garrett 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. > > Agreed. It is my opinion that this is not the case, assuming that the > changes are substantial enough to be copyrightable. > > I'm otherwise refraining from comment on this thread, because it is > unclear as to whether translations are copyrightable or not. Translated books are certainly copyrightable and have a separate copyright than the original, I do not see why translations of programs should not assuming entire phrases are translated and not single terms. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
