Re: M-x send-emacs-patch

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 05/06/2016 12:16 AM, Richard Copley wrote:

> Thanks Clément. It's not my place to decide on this, but it doesn't
> sound to me as though it addresses my question, which is different
> from the question of whether a patch would be acceptable to the FSF;
> namely, does the GPL prevent me from putting a modification to a
> GPL-licensed work into the public domain in the first place?

Your code will be public domain. The combined work will still be GPL.

Actually releasing your changes in the public domain in the way accepted 
by FSF will require paperwork anyway, so you must have a very particular 
reason to choose this route.