[illumos-Advocates] RTI for: 900 sed errors when -e is given a 0-length argument

[Gordon Ross]

On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at damore.org> wrote:
[...]
> There was guidance at Sun that said you updated a copyright whenever you
> made a change that affected the binary.  This includes many changes that
> you might consider trivial.
>
> Generally if I'm adding something new, even trivial, I try to add a
> copyright notice.  (This actually helps in the long run with my desires
> to spread the CDDL further and especially into Oracle code where it
> might be used as a crowbar to get Oracle to release other changes back.)

OK, that's helpful to know, w.r.t. Oracle CDDL code.

> However, if I'm just deleting code I usually don't touch it, unless the
> deletion is somehow "tricky" or strategic (i.e. the deletion is somehow
> adding special value.)

OK, so given that in this case it's already BSD-licensed code, let's
advise him there's no need for another copyright line in this case.

Gordon