Re: Commit some Additions to a Gnustep file

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 11:02  pm, Philip Mötteli wrote:

> Hi
>
>
> I have made some additions to 
> <extensions/extensions/objc-runtime.[hm]>, that I think would be good 
> to integrate into it, instead everybody having its own version of such 
> a file.
> How can I do that? Do I have to send the proposed changements to a 
> specific mailinglist?

The copyright on the extensions library is not owned by the Free 
Software Foundation.
This has a few consequences ...

1. You can make large changes to it without having to bother with the 
formalities of assigning copyright to the FSF (for official parts of 
GNUstep, the FSF has to have a copyright assignment for any large 
changes).
2. It isn't an official part of GNUstep, and won't be distributed as 
part of the package, so any changes you make won't be used by most of 
the GNUstep community.

If you want to provide objc runtime related code to be used by lots of 
people, you probably need to get it into GSObjCRuntime.[hm] and/or  
objc-gnu2next.h in the GNUstep base package.  As long as it's small 
(the guideline is up to 14 lines of new code) and doesn't break 
existing code, conforms to coding standards, looks useful etc, we can 
add an update without any more formality.  If it's larger, you need to 
assign the copyright to the FSF first.