On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 03:48:28AM +0300, Alexey Tourbin wrote:
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> 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.

http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Legally-Significant


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