On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 01:36:14AM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > What if the main creators of the software prefer acknowledging substantial > contributions with proper attribution and copyright notice in the file > preambles? They do list different names in different files, and there are > only few authors who do most of the development. They've kept a separate list > of patch authors, but many patches may not be considered "substantial > enough" to put a submitter onto that list. In my first reply in this thread > I've pointed out that Petr is not credited for patches.
Determining whether a work is sufficiently substantial to be copyrightable is not straightforward. Don't try it without competent legal advice. If you haven't received competent legal advice, you've probably made a mistake at some point. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
