Re: [devel] [PATCH 8/8] set.c: update copyright notice

[Alexey Tourbin <at@altlinux.ru>]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 03:34:15PM +0300, Kharitonov A. Dmitry wrote:
> >>--- a/lib/set.c
> >>+++ b/lib/set.c
> >>@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
> >>   * set.c - base62, golomb and set-string routines
> >>   *
> >>   * Copyright (C) 2010  Alexey Tourbin<at@altlinux.org>
> >>+ * Copyright (C) 2010  Kirill A. Shutemov<kirill@shutemov.name>
> >>   *
> >>   * License: GPLv2+ or LGPL, see RPM COPYING
> >>   */
> >This is the most impudent patch in the series.
> А кто такой этот Кирилл? почему он так 
> агрессивно пытается стать соавтором? не 
> сделав при этом ничего?

As the story goes, Kirill made some trivial changes to my code,
and the last (and the most impudent) change was to list himself
as a copyright holder of the code in question.

The question is then what's the enough amount of work to become
a copyright holder.  I believe that one has to write a distinct
piece of code that's not been written before, and the code should
exercise a distinct feature or trait that's not been available
before.  Trivial changes, including trivial bugfixes, do not amount
for authorship and/or copyright.