Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> In the open source world, many projects follow the FSF rule of thumb,
> which states changes fewer than 10-15 lines of code are not significant
> enough to earn copyright protection - you can see this in the FSF
> Contributor Agreement docs at:
>    http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Legally-Significant.html
> (that page says 15 lines - other FSF pages say 10 lines).

I did usually only add my Copyright in case that I did change more than ~ 20%
of the code in a file.

Jörg

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