On Thursday 12 April 2007 16:35, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 12 April 2007 16:31, Paul Brook wrote:
> >> However, bundling them all up into big patches would probably run over
> >> the size limit for "small patches that don't require paperwork".
> >
> > The size limit for non-copyrightable changes is accumulative. ie. it
> > applies the same whether changes are submitted one by one or all at once.
> >
>   :)  Over what period is it cumulative?  Does that mean that if you submit
> an 8 line patch, that twenty years later you can't submit a 3 line patch
> without paperwork?

I think the 12 lines is a guideline rather than a legal definition, but in 
principle this would require a copyright assignment. By my reading copyright 
for written work expires 70 years after the author's death.

IANAL.

Paul

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