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, 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 own any copyright in the result. For larger patches, which really do have creative content, this could be a serious problem. I imagine that BP would be interested to talk about this, since sacrificing user bug reports is a serious cost. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
