Default printer and patch management

Mike Hearn mike at theoretic.com
Fri Nov 28 04:57:10 CST 2003


On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 02:28, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> This may cause some duplication, but it's always better to have two
> implementations of something than to risk having none at all if it
> turns out that you can't release the patch in the end.

OK, this is a good point.

> Also make sure that you get the customer's agreement before releasing
> anything; most likely if you are doing work for hire they own the
> copyright and you can't release it without their permission (of course
> once they distribute the result it has to be LGPL, but they don't
> necessarily want to distribute it).

I'll have to check on who owns the copyright, but in this case at least
a stipulation of doing the work was that the changes would be merged
back into Wine if possible, so that isn't a problem.

thanks -mike




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