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On 03/30/12 14:00, Jon Portnoy wrote: |
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> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 01:52:18PM -0400, Richard Yao wrote: |
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>> The improvement is to the ebuild itself. It is a variable containing a |
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>> list of directories upon which the module's build system depends. |
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>> I spoke to naota and he doesn't have any problem sending this upstream, |
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>> so I sent an email to the FreeBSD maintainer offering him the improvement. |
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> I would argue that a trivial change like that is unlikely to be substantial |
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> enough to constitute a copyrightable work at all. |
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I brought this to the list specifically because the line between a work |
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being trivial or not is poorly defined. I would prefer something more |
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concrete for the purpose of enabling collaboration with FreeBSD upstream. |
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