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
Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> However, I note an interesting problem: The maintainer will not be
> able to send patches sent to the BTS upstream, as he is not the
> copyright holder for those contributions.
I'm not certain most bug-fix patches are copyrightable -- for example,
On Jul 13, 2004, at 05:49, Andrew Stribblehill wrote:
| By intentionally submitting any modifications, corrections or
| derivatives to this work, or any other work intended for use with
Request
| Tracker, to Best Practical Solutions, LLC, you confirm that you are
the
| copyright holder for th
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Let's keep in mind that the FSF has a copyright assigment policy as
> well. It's very, very similar to BSP's, as I understand it, except
> that whereas the FSF is the assignee of the copyright and grants
> back to the original copyright holder a no-ho
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 02:02:49PM -0500, J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote:
> While I don't see anything with this addendum that prevents it from being
> DFSG-free, I personally would avoid distributing the covered software
> under this license addendum. I don't see anything here that is necessary
> for
Glenn Maynard wrote:
> By replying to any messages in this thread, you agree to order me a pizza.
So, what's your address and what's your local pizza place? ;-)
> The above is merely a false statement.
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
--
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Andrew Stribblehill wrote:
> The new version:
>
> | By intentionally submitting any modifications, corrections or
> | derivatives to this work, or any other work intended for use with
> | Request Tracker, to Best Practical Solutions, LLC, you confirm that you
> | are the copyright holder for thos
Andrew Stribblehill wrote:
The new version:
| By intentionally submitting any modifications, corrections or
| derivatives to this work, or any other work intended for use with Request
| Tracker, to Best Practical Solutions, LLC, you confirm that you are the
| copyright holder for those contribut
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:49:03AM +0100, Andrew Stribblehill wrote:
> Okay, I'm forwarding what Jesse and BestPractical's lawyer have put
> together as a replacement appendage to the GPL in their licence.
[...]
> The new version:
>
> | By intentionally submitting any modifications, corrections or
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 06:15:19PM -0400, Michael Poole wrote:
> The new submission paragraph is triggered "[b]y intentionally
> submitting any modifications... to Best Practical Solutions." I
> suppose it comes into force by a programmer reading it and sending the
> code to Best Practical anyway.
Glenn Maynard writes:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 08:44:13AM -0400, Michael Poole wrote:
>> Andrew Stribblehill writes:
>> > | By intentionally submitting any modifications, corrections or
>> > | derivatives to this work, or any other work intended for use with Request
>> > | Tracker, to Best Practi
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 08:44:13AM -0400, Michael Poole wrote:
> Andrew Stribblehill writes:
> > | By intentionally submitting any modifications, corrections or
> > | derivatives to this work, or any other work intended for use with Request
> > | Tracker, to Best Practical Solutions, LLC, you confi
Andrew Stribblehill writes:
[snip]
> The new version:
>
> | By intentionally submitting any modifications, corrections or
> | derivatives to this work, or any other work intended for use with Request
> | Tracker, to Best Practical Solutions, LLC, you confirm that you are the
> | copyright holder f
Okay, I'm forwarding what Jesse and BestPractical's lawyer have put
together as a replacement appendage to the GPL in their licence.
The old version:
| Unless otherwise specified, all modifications, corrections or
| extensions to this work which alter its source code become the
| property of Best
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 07:56:20AM -0400, Jesse Vincent wrote:
> so, the # BEGIN LICENSE BLOCK and # END LICENSE BLOCK lines are there
> _solely_ to allow an automated tagging tool to go through and tag
> things and not intended as an ammendment to the GPL.
>
> If we changed it to # {BEGIN|END} B
so, the # BEGIN LICENSE BLOCK and # END LICENSE BLOCK lines are there
_solely_ to allow an automated tagging tool to go through and tag
things and not intended as an ammendment to the GPL.
If we changed it to # {BEGIN|END} BPS-TAGGED BLOCK, would that satisfy
the objection?
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