Re: [bug-inetutils] Add --queries option to traceroute

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

      +2008-04-17  Debarshi Ray <address@hidden> (tiny change)

   Again, no reason to mark it as tiny change, you have papers for inetutils.

And by this I also imply that the ChangeLog should be amended
accordingly.

For the record, here is the relevant bits from the GCS:

* Legally Significant Changes

If a person contributes more than around 15 lines of code and/or text
that is legally significant for copyright purposes, we
need copyright papers for that contribution, as described above.

A change of just a few lines (less than 15 or so) is not legally
significant for copyright.  A regular series of repeated changes, such
as renaming a symbol, is not legally significant even if the symbol
has to be renamed in many places.  Keep in mind, however, that a
series of minor changes by the same person can add up to a significant
contribution.  What counts is the total contribution of the person; it
is irrelevant which parts of it were contributed when.

Copyright does not cover ideas.  If someone contributes ideas but no
text, these ideas may be morally significant as contributions, and
worth giving credit for, but they are not significant for copyright
purposes.  Likewise, bug reports do not count for copyright purposes.

When giving credit to people whose contributions are not legally
significant for copyright purposes, be careful to make that fact
clear.  The credit should clearly say they did not contribute
significant code or text.

When people's contributions are not legally significant because they
did not write code, do this by stating clearly what their contribution
was.  For instance, you could write this:

 /*
  * Ideas by:
  *   Richard Mlynarik <mly@@adoc.xerox.com> (1997)
  *   Masatake Yamato <masata-y@@is.aist-nara.ac.jp> (1999)
  */

"Ideas by:" makes it clear that Mlynarik and Yamato here contributed
only ideas, not code.  Without the "Ideas by:" note, several years
from now we would find it hard to be sure whether they had contributed
code, and we might have to track them down and ask them.

When you record a small patch in a change log file, first search for
previous changes by the same person, and see if per past
contributions, plus the new one, add up to something legally
significant.  If so, you should get copyright papers for all per
changes before you install the new change.

If that is not so, you can install the small patch.  Write `(tiny
change)' after the patch author's name, like this:

  2002-11-04  Robert Fenk  <Robert.Fenk@@gmx.de>  (tiny change)