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Re: Copyright questions
- To: bernds at redhat dot com, kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu
- Subject: Re: Copyright questions
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 08:08:39 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
<<Robert Dewar can say more about this, but if there is exactly one way
to fix a bug, in a least one Federal circuit court, the patch would be
considered uncopyrightable.
>>
More accurately, unprotectable. You can always copyright anything, whether
there is something protectable is another matter. Typically when you
copyright software, some aspects are protectable, some are not.