[xorg-bugzilla-noise] [Bug 792] Screen blanks / DPMS activates while desktop is in use

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------- Additional Comments From mharris at www.linux.org.uk  2004-08-27 04:30 -------
David Dawes has repeatedly said any code he commits to CVS is under the
XFree86 1.1 license.

Many people give opinions, including lawyers, that small obvious bug
fixes is not copyrightable at all, so in theory, including some small
obvious bugfixes which happen to be committed by David is theoretically
possible with good odds of winning a copyright lawsuit.

The question is then wether such a lawsuit would be tested in court, and
who is willing to find out.  In all likelyhood, the odds are that such
a frivolous lawsuit would cost the person suing, to spend a lot of money,
and lose their case.  It would also needlessly waste a lot of people's time.

Why bother?  Really?

It's not much more difficult to get someone to read the code, and then
describe the changes in a non-specific way which generically describes the
problem and the solution without mentioning code specifics, then having
someone else who hasn't ever looked at the XFree86 code for the fix to
go ahead and re-implement it.

Nobody is going to just wholesale copy code from XFree86 to X.Org however
in which there is any question about legal issues pertaining to copyright,
trademark, patent, or other intellectual property law.
        
   
   
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