[Kde-pim] KMail License issues.

[David Jarvie]

Hi Bertjan,

On Tuesday 16 September 2008 15:43, Bertjan Broeksema wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 September 2008 15:16:51 Thomas McGuire wrote:
>> Well, the only way to do that is to ask _all_ contributers to those
>> files
>> to relicense the code to something GPL3-compatible.
>
> By this you mean everybody who has made a commit once to that file? Or
> everybody who added a copyright statement (or some sort of) to the
> specific
> file?

Minor contributions are not necessarily copyrightable. For copyright to
exist, a contribution must have some original content. So code which can
only be written one way isn't covered by copyright - one example of this
is a minor bugfix involving only a handful of lines of code, where the fix
is obvious. So you only need to contact those who have contributed in a
meaningful way - although quite where the boundary lies is no doubt an
issue for lawyers :(

-- 
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author & maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm

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