From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FPU context switching fix for SMP
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 23:09:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050126150951.50b7a875.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41f753cabb795@wp.pl>
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 23:06:41 +0100
Baurjan Ismagulov <ibr@ata.cs.hun.edu.tr> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 12:26:10AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> > Are you sure a bugfix merits a copyright attribution? It's atypical
> > elsewhere...
>
> IANAL, but as I understand section 2 of GPL, it requires that any
> changes are logged.
It's only relevant if it is significant enough for copyright purposes.
Changes or bug fixes that are only 2 or 3 lines in nature, generally
aren't.
Also, two more points:
1) copyright law and licensing are two different things, don't confuse
them
2) even if an author fails to put an explicit copyright statement
into his work, many countries define their copyright law such that
copyright of the work by that author is implicit at least to some
extent
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-26 23:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-26 8:24 FPU context switching fix for SMP Krzysztof Helt
2005-01-26 8:26 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-01-26 8:57 ` Krzysztof Helt
2005-01-26 22:06 ` Baurjan Ismagulov
2005-01-26 23:09 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2005-01-29 18:22 ` Baurjan Ismagulov
2005-02-15 17:40 ` David S. Miller
2005-02-15 20:01 ` William Lee Irwin III
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