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Re: gdb spelling corrections patches
- To: Jim Blandy <jimb at zwingli dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: gdb spelling corrections patches
- From: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>
- Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 15:45:45 -0700
- Cc: David B Anderson <davea at quasar dot engr dot sgi dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Core Tools, Apple Computer
- References: <200006082056.NAA51425@quasar.engr.sgi.com> <npd7lrhn6u.fsf@zwingli.cygnus.com>
- Reply-To: shebs at apple dot com
Jim Blandy wrote:
>
> We're definately interested in this. *ahem*
>
> David, you haven't signed a copyright agreement, right? What is the
> sense of the jury about the copyright status of a change like this?
> The overall patch will be quite large, but there's no individual
> change longer than a line or two, and it's hard to argue that it's one
> coherent work. I tend to think it's not copyrightable.
I agree. Copyright issues only come into play when the contribution
includes newly-created bits. Changing words to have their standard
spelling isn't creating anything new, indeed one could argue that it's
negating the creativity of the comments' original authors in finding
new and different ways to spell the same old words. :-)
Stan