On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 01:52:18PM -0400, Richard Yao wrote: > > The improvement is to the ebuild itself. It is a variable containing a > list of directories upon which the module's build system depends. > > I spoke to naota and he doesn't have any problem sending this upstream, > so I sent an email to the FreeBSD maintainer offering him the improvement. >
I would argue that a trivial change like that is unlikely to be substantial enough to constitute a copyrightable work at all.