Re: What is the copyright of a patch waiting for approval?

James Boston wrote:
> Here's the scenario:
> 
> Person 'A' submits a patch to bugzilla.mozilla.org. It's waiting to be
> approved. Person 'B' comes along and see a snippet of code that would
> be great for his patch to submit to mozilla. Is this allowed?

Sure.

> What is the copyright of the patch?

Copyright laws are "Fiction of Law",
ie: they are Not "Constitutional".

Welcome to the open-source revolution.

My opinions are un-orthodox;
& they are not appropriate for those who seek to work
from within the proprietary/corporate/empirical universe.

Charles Stewart
Sandy Oregon

> A slightly different scenario would be a patch that is not accepted
> but someone else wants to take it and rework it.
> 
> I don't see any blurbs at developer.mozilla.org about whether or not
> copyright is assigned, either at the time of submitting or after.
> 
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