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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:15:46 -0400
From: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
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On 03/30/12 14:00, Jon Portnoy wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 01:52:18PM -0400, Richard Yao wrote:
>>
>> The improvement is to the ebuild itself. It is a variable containing a=

>> list of directories upon which the module's build system depends.
>>
>> I spoke to naota and he doesn't have any problem sending this upstream=
,
>> so I sent an email to the FreeBSD maintainer offering him the improvem=
ent.
>>
>=20
> I would argue that a trivial change like that is unlikely to be substan=
tial=20
> enough to constitute a copyrightable work at all.
>=20

I brought this to the list specifically because the line between a work
being trivial or not is poorly defined. I would prefer something more
concrete for the purpose of enabling collaboration with FreeBSD upstream.=



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