Re: PathSearchAndQualify patch not applied?

I don't think any of you understand.  The person who is taking the risk is 
the person advertising the patch.  He/she have invested an effort into 
producing the patch, not knowing that by advertising the patch they lose 
all legal rights to the effort invested.

I understand the indignant response presented by Bryan and Keef.  It makes 
more sense to believe you own something.  It is irresponsible of TG to 
mislead people in this way.

If you wish to advertise your patches because you want to share your work 
with others and get some credit for it, please do so.  If you want to 
maintain ownership over your work, the best way is not to advertise it in 
a patch to someone else's code.

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Keef Aragon wrote:

> Nadav,
> 
> To finish this whole thing off, you are right... it's not practical to
> prove yourself and your patch.It would certainly be extremely
> difficult to bring a case to a judge.That doesn't mean your work isn't
> copyrightable, it just means you can't prove you did it in the first
> place.Just like the murder analogy that Bryan gave earlier.  None the
> less, the law is the law and your work is always - always
> copyrightable... you just may not be able to prove it's your work when
> it comes down to it - that doesn't void the law.It just leaves you
> with no case to present.

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 Rob Crittenden wrote:
                                                                                
> This is a pointless discussion. Nobody here is a lawyer nor have they
> professed intimiate knowledge of International Copyright law. Merely
> believing that it is ok is not enough for the "judge," as you say.
>
> Regardless, Transgaming simply is not going to apply this patch. You can
> argue about it all you want but they not going to change their mind, so
> please just drop it.

For my part, I could not care less about the specific patch mentioned 
at the start of this discussion.  I don't even know what application 
Jeroen Janssen was referring to.  Does anybody care if this patch is 
applied or not? 

> The risk is all theirs, not yours. I commend them for being careful and
> conscious of the intention of the patch author. There are lots of folks
> who wouldn't be very pleased if TG started incorporating patches intended
> for the wine project.

There must be an understanding, then.  Do you represent these folks?  Do 
you represent TG?

> Has anyone bothered to contact the patch author to see if he cared whether
> it was included in Cedega?

I don't think this discussion is about the specific author or his patch.  
If TG wanted to fix the problem they could simply go ahead and do it.  If 
I understand it correctly the function itself takes a relative path, 
searches for it, and returns the full path.

Nadav Frum
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