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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 17:03:08 -0400
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On 2016-05-05 16:42, Richard Copley wrote:
> Yes there is, but I wouldn't like to go into it in a public forum.
> Can patches to a GPL'd project be public domain?

Yes, at least according to 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/doc/Copyright/conditions.text:

    This means that if you want to contribute software to GNU, you have to
    do something to give us legal permission to use it.  There are three
    ways this can be done:

    (...)

    * Put the code in the public domain.  Then there is nothing to stop
    hoarding of modified versions, but we can still use the program in GNU.

Hopefully that works for you!
Clément.

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