Re: PathSearchAndQualify patch not applied?

Bryan Kadzban <[email protected]> Thu, 22 Jul 2004 07:04:12 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.winex.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Nadav Frum wrote:
> You still don't understand.  You can hold copyright over something if
> and only if it is unique in some way.

And a patch IS.  Nobody else has used those lines of code, in that
sequence, in those places, in the program before.

> If you cannot identify anything in your patch that is unique and
> yours,

As I said last time:  THE LINES OF CODE THAT THE PATCH INSERTS.  The
person who wrote the patch created those lines, so under Berne
Convention copyright law, they are theirs.  If the code had already been
in the program, it wouldn't be in the patch, so those lines are also
unique.

You obviously don't understand something about the definition of a
"work", so this is going to be just about all I'll say on this.  If you
still refuse to understand it, then I guess it's going to be your
problem.