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On 18 August 2006 15:26, mwoehlke wrote:Dave Korn wrote:On 18 August 2006 14:31, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:Yeeeeeaah, that was my thought :-)I don't suppose for one second that the RedHat legal team are actuallyCan anyone from RedHat acknowledge that this arrangement would be acceptable to them? If so, that would potentially open the door to any public domain code.
reading this newgroup.
*sip*
:-)
To answer the question, though, that's the whole point of making a
trivial change. My understanding
*sip*
is you can copyright that trivial
change, which then covers the entire work, with the exception that the
original PD version is still PD.
Why wouldn't it just cover the trivial change then?
Hmm, is there a list legal<AT>redhat<DOT>com? ;-)
Dunno. You could always give it a try. If what you get back has a disclaimer more than thirty times as big as the message body, you'll know you've reached a lawyer.
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