Oron Peled wrote: > Do we believe many individual small contributions somehow "dillutes" > the GPL into public domain? I don't think copyright law work this way. > > In a way, it does.
If I start out with a GPL program that is 1,000 lines long, and through a series of patches, none of them copyrightable and no two coming from the same contributor, achieve a 2,500 lines of code program that has only 100 of the original lines, can I still honestly claim to own copyright over the piece? The reason this is not practical is because it is extremely unlikely to happen. If the patches changed the entire program, it is extremely unlikely that they will be non-copyrightable themselves. This is due to the fact that a single line patch CAN be copyrightable, if it expresses a unique idea. Shachar ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
