Garbage deletion

[Robert Dewar]

> 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.