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Re: [RFA] C++ language compatibility in sources [was RE: Add missing casts in gengtype-lex]
- From: Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>
- To: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, "'Thomas Neumann'" <tneumann at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:59:38 +0100
- Subject: Re: [RFA] C++ language compatibility in sources [was RE: Add missing casts in gengtype-lex]
- References: <evlhfu$bm2$1@sea.gmane.org> <200704121631.06323.paul@codesourcery.com> <014e01c77d18$2f335990$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
On Thursday 12 April 2007 16:35, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 12 April 2007 16:31, Paul Brook wrote:
> >> However, bundling them all up into big patches would probably run over
> >> the size limit for "small patches that don't require paperwork".
> >
> > The size limit for non-copyrightable changes is accumulative. ie. it
> > applies the same whether changes are submitted one by one or all at once.
> >
> :) Over what period is it cumulative? Does that mean that if you submit
> an 8 line patch, that twenty years later you can't submit a 3 line patch
> without paperwork?
I think the 12 lines is a guideline rather than a legal definition, but in
principle this would require a copyright assignment. By my reading copyright
for written work expires 70 years after the author's death.
IANAL.
Paul