[boost] Re: Moving to the Boost Software License

From: Alexander Terekhov (terekhov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-21 04:00:21

Guillaume Melquiond wrote:
[...]
> Or maybe you are considering that somebody who corrected a small typo at
> a given time now holds a copyright on these files? I may be wrong but I
> don't think it is necessary: unless the person did put a "copyright"
> line in the file, I think the person willingly relinquish its copyright
> on the trivial modifications. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Trivial modifications aren't copyrightable at all. 

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regards,
alexander.