On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 09:24:23AM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: > I'm not certain most bug-fix patches are copyrightable -- for example, > if an author has typed "if (x = 0) ..." and I fix that to "if (0 == x) > ..." then I haven't really contributed anything creative, and I don't > think I own any copyright in the result.
I agree with that. > For larger patches, which really do have creative content, this could > be a serious problem. I imagine that BP would be interested to talk > about this, since sacrificing user bug reports is a serious cost. That's the ones they should worry about losing. They should certainly be made aware of it, and (very importantly) so should the Debian maintainer.
