On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Robert Collins <robe...@robertcollins.net>wrote:
> On 23 December 2013 17:35, Chet Burgess <c...@metacloud.com> wrote: > > It's unclear to me what exactly constitutes writing a new patch. I can > check > > out oslo.messaging, and without trying to merge the patch just go and > make > > the same change (its literarily a 2 line change). I can write the tests, > and > > I can submit it (which I'm happy to do, I really want this bug fixed). > > Honestly though this change is so trivial I don't see how my patch would > > look all that different from the one already posted. I know there is > prior > > art. The mixin class that kombu provides does the exact same thing. Is > that > Research the term 'de minimis' WRT copyright and decide (with the help of actual legal advice if necessary) when to just go ahead and submit a patch. Prior art is a patent concept, not related to copyright. Copyright is > +1...this stuff gets confused too much these days... dt -- Dean Troyer dtro...@gmail.com
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