Linus on documenting patch provenance
Posted May 24, 2004 17:46 UTC (Mon) by
josh_stern (guest, #4868)
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Linus on documenting patch provenance by JoeBuck
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Linus on documenting patch provenance
Pointing out the obvious...To assume that the entity that the
contributor describes as her current employer is the only other
party that might have copyright claims on the contributed code
is, at best, a fairly weak heuristic, while going for something
much stronger than that is likely involve substantial detective
work. Perhaps there is some close tie in between the FSF
standard and legal precedents for what constitutes reasonable
due diligence?? I'd be interested to hear Eben Moglen's
commentary on that.
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