On 4 aug 2006, at 16:02, Daniël Mantione wrote:
No, you need approval of all copyright holders. Everyone who has
submitted
patches and did not explicitly assign the copyright to one of the
FPC team
members, retains the copyright on the code in that patch
(to the extent that
this code was copyrightable in the first place, i.e. it was not
simply a
typo-correction or so -- where exactly the boundary is can only be
decided by
a court on a case-by-case basis).
Exactly, if I make a suggestion to an author of a book to change
something, I cannot claim copyright on it.
If the author of the book literally inserts your text (or bases his
own text on yours) then you (co-)own the copyright on that part of
the book.
Therefore the vast majority of
patches are not protected by copyright.
Plenty of code has been integrated which is more than just a oneliner.
Only if a patch adds enough code that it can be considered a "work" as
specified in the copyright laws,
A procedure is most certainly "a work". And significantly rewriting
one would also be one.
Jonas
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