OVPL and open ownership

Chris Zumbrunn chris at czv.com
Sat Jul 23 18:55:52 UTC 2005


On Jul 23, 2005, at 8:23 PM, David Barrett wrote:

> - At worst, a disgruntled developer could change every file (convert 
> all tabs to spaces), call this a "contribution" and voila -- the 
> entire codebase is irrevocably licensed under BSD.

No, no... that disgruntled developer's contribution would be only the 
spaces, not the rest on those lines or inside the file.

So, only the spaces would be under BSD ;-)

/czv




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