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
