On 07/10/2012 07:06 AM, Simo Sorce wrote: > 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. I'm not taking sides on this issue, merely pointing out that it is unclear. ~tom == Fedora Project -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
