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Re: M-x send-emacs-patch


From: Clément Pit--Claudel
Subject: Re: M-x send-emacs-patch
Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 18:27:47 -0400
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On 2016-05-05 18:01, Richard Copley wrote:
>> I think these probably felt under the usual exemption for trivial changes 
>> (ie  changes that are too tiny to be copyrightable anyway AFAIU); what I'm 
>> suggesting is different: according to 
>> <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/doc/Copyright/conditions.text>,
>>  the FSF can also accept public domain patches without a signed assignment. 
>> If I understand that page correctly, there would then be no limitations on 
>> your contributions, as long as they are considered "not very important" (as 
>> opposed to "trivial").
> 
> I'm not sure. The language there is in terms of whole programs, not
> patches, so it doesn't apply here without some interpretation.

Fair enough :) At this point, I think we'll need help from someone more 
experienced with this process.
Hopefully someone on this list can step in!

Clément.

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