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Re: Garbage deletion
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: chowell2 at pacbell dot net, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:20:08 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Garbage deletion
> I plan to (finally) file a copyright assignment form, but is such a form
> necessary for garbage deletion patches? (Can text removal be considered
> copyrighted material? :)
Yes, of course, if you delete part of a work, then you create a derived
work, and such creation must be properly licensed, and you have a copyright
result in the resulting derived work which must be dealt with.