Re: get mozilla patches upstream?

[Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost>]

On Mon 24 Mar 2008 at 21:20:06 +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> And let's not even think about the can of worms the ARM patches cause that
> they removed from their code after Mycroft not agreeing on a license change
> they wanted to enforce - and that are basically impossible to write
> differently (i.e. I could clean room those changes with some other developer,
> and the result would look like a verbatim copy of the removed changes)

In that case, under the copyright laws of many different countries, that
patch could likely not be copyrighted. Things you can only do one way
are often excluded, after all copyright is for *creative* work.

-Olaf.
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