Approval request for BXAPL
Steve Lhomme
steve.lhomme at free.fr
Thu Jul 4 08:28:56 UTC 2002
Forrest J. Cavalier III wrote:
> Steve Lhomme <steve.lhomme at free.fr> wrote, in part:
>
>
>>A Contributor can be (or not) a Distributor.
>>A Distributor can be (or not) a Contributor.
>>That's what the definitions say.
>
>
> The definition (at General #2) is as follows, and is formatted
> thusly:
> Contributor:
> Any Distributor and/or
> any User supplying any Modifications and/or Derivatives
> and/or Dependent Software in any form to the Copyright
> Holder, but not to any User(s).
>
> That makes it clear that every "Distributor" is a "Contributor"
I guess we're not talking the same english ;)
A Distributor becomes a Contributor IF (and only if) it supplies
modifications to the copyright holder (ie maintainer of the code).
That means the a Distributor that doesn't make any changes (or make
changes not submited to the copyright holder) is NOT a Contributor.
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