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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Abusive copyright removal
From:       Cyrille Berger <cberger () cberger ! net>
Date:       2010-03-30 10:50:58
Message-ID: 201003301250.58696.cberger () cberger ! net
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On Tuesday 30 March 2010, LukasT.dev@gmail.com wrote:
> Here are the commits
> 
> Copyright added
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/koffice/kword/part/frames/KWTextDocumentLayout.
> cpp?r1=846840&r2=846839&pathrev=846840
> 
> Copyright removed
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/koffice/kword/part/frames/KWTextDocumentLayout.
> cpp?r1=1108276&r2=1108275&pathrev=1108276
> 
> Maybe OFF TOPIC:
> What is the policy? If I remove somebody's code from class and now he does
> not have any code in the class, I can remove his copyright?
It is *impossible* to know for sure how much you were influenced by his 
previous code. If you remove a plugin, and start a new implementation from 
scratch, without looking at the old implementation, then ok, you don't have to 
put the old copyright, but if you take the old plugin and do a lot of 
refactoring and in the end consider that you have totally rewritten it, it is 
still impossible to know for sure that the new code is not a derivative of the 
old code.

But in this case, Thomas said that the point was that Pierre did not have any 
copyright right on that file in the first place.

-- 
Cyrille Berger
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