On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 08:30:50PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2001, Richard Braakman wrote: > >It also doesn't require more than the name and the date, and it doesn't > >forbid you from removing the notices for previous changes. So your > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > That would be a clear violation of the previous modifier's copyright.
"clear"? I don't see how it would be a copyright violation at all. > [...] Taken > from a point of view that every change is it's own quantum of intellectual > property, I'm not sure that the Debian maintainers have the right to > remove any changelog entries save their own. Bugfixes are usually too small to be protected by copyright. A few lines don't matter, and neither do corrections where there is only a limited number of ways to fix the code. Copyright is only an issue when a patch makes significant changes. (This is because copyright protects creative expression, not the ideas behind it.) In any case, I don't see the relationship between copyright and changelog entries. Richard Braakman
