Nees help selecting a license

John Cowan cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Thu Apr 10 04:04:23 UTC 2003


David Johnson scripsit:

> IANAL, not even on TV, but I would hazard a guess that trivial patches 
> up to five lines or so are fair game. 

I think the FSF sets the lower limit at 10 lines; after that they want a
copyright assignment.

> Again, I am not a lawyer, nor carry writs of marquee,  

If you mean "letters of marque", then I am glad to hear it: a privateer
among our midst would be an uncomfortable thing.

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