Per Abrahamsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Per Abrahamsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Chad Whitacre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>>> I'm trying to determine what the threshold is in terms of lines of code >>>> I can copy/paste from GPL software before coming under the GPL myself. >>>> >>>> Is this issue spelled out anywhere? >>> >>> It depends on local interpretation of copyright law. >>> >>> The FSF use 10 normal lines as a very rough guideline for accepting >>> patches without explicit copyright assignment. This doesn't mean >>> that 10 lines is the law, but that the FSF themselves are unlikely >>> to sue over such trivial code pieces. >> >> Uh, no. > > Uh, yes. > >> That means that the FSF themselves believe that they are >> unlikely to get sued over such trivial code pieces. > > Yes. And if they don't believe others will be able to successfully > sue them over such trivial code pieces, they are not likely to > believe they themselves will be able to successfully sue others over > the same.
10 lines is the defensive line of the FSF. I think it likely that the limit where they will progress to lawsuit themselves would be larger. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
