Nees help selecting a license

Mark Rafn dagon at dagon.net
Thu Apr 10 03:30:13 UTC 2003


On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Christophe Dupre wrote:

> The way I understand it, is what happens if somebody sends in a 
> one-liner patch that fixes an off-by-one error. It's a trivial patch, 
> but it might be critical AND very difficult to re-implement in a 
> different way.

That patch is almost certainly not copyrightable, though, so this example, 
at least, is not a problem.

Still, the best policy is not to accept patches without an assignment of 
copyright to you.  
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