I could understand that you could have good reasons to don't change. You always have good reasons.
For an industry mostly concerned with generating valuable IP, the widespread school child level of ignorance regarding how law treats IP is consistently stunning. Otherwise intelligent engineers regularly conflate copyright, patents and trademarks, and consistently get wrong what is and is not plagiarism. They think that copy and paste is bad, and rewriting code they find on the internet is good. Many open source projects operate a "10 lines" rule, where if a snippet is less than ten lines long, then treat it as free of ownership. It's not that simple in the real world, and many, many startups have come very badly unstuck after they reach a certain size despite having written great code which usefully was disrupting an entire industry. Yet stupid, school child mistakes in how they wrote their code kills off the company. Despite all this, an industry wide tolerance of profound ignorance of IP continues. We need to do better.
Sorry, I've not read the whole thread.
Nevertheless doing such minor change is not costly at all.
Andrey Semashev has proposed himself to provide a patch.
Open source lets anybody modify any code for whatever reasons they have. But I will not personally engage in brushing a problem under the carpet. It's wrong to hide problems instead of dealing with them. Niall -- ned Productions Limited Consulting http://www.nedproductions.biz/ http://ie.linkedin.com/in/nialldouglas/