RE: Rsync over ssh (pulling from Cygwin to Linux) stalls..

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

On 18 August 2006 15:26, mwoehlke wrote:

> Dave Korn wrote:
>> On 18 August 2006 14:31, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:
>> 
>>> Can anyone from RedHat acknowledge that this arrangement
>>> would be acceptable to them? If so, that would potentially
>>> open the door to any public domain code.
>> 
>>   I don't suppose for one second that the RedHat legal team are actually
>> reading this newgroup. 
>> 
>>   *sip*
>> 
>>   :-)
> 
> Yeeeeeaah, that was my thought :-)
> 
> To answer the question, though, that's the whole point of making a
> trivial change. My understanding 

  *sip*

> is you can copyright that trivial
> change, which then covers the entire work, with the exception that the
> original PD version is still PD. 

  Why wouldn't it just cover the trivial change then?

> Hmm, is there a list legal<AT>redhat<DOT>com? ;-)

  Dunno.  You could always give it a try.  If what you get back has a
disclaimer more than thirty times as big as the message body, you'll know
you've reached a lawyer.

    cheers,
      DaveK

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