Re: Licensing change: Audacious - GPLv3 --> BSD

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On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 05:45:15PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:57:31 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 
> > Saying things like:
> > 
> > "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,"
> > 
> > is inaccurate and dangerous. It's entirely appropriate to indicate that 
> > it's untrue.
> 
> I wrote that in the context of files giving credit to *some* people [*],
> which could (!) be an indication that any _unknown_ changes, which other
> people may have managed to get included in those files, likely have not
> been considered substantial enough to qualify for copyright.

Which is a dangerous position to take. Don't say things like that.

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