Re: M-x send-emacs-patch

[Richard Copley]

On 5 May 2016 at 22:37, Clément Pit--Claudel <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2016-05-05 17:20, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Is this the case? 
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/doc/Copyright/conditions.text
>  says the following:
>
>     * Public domain.
>
>     If you put the program in the public domain, we prefer to have a signed
>     piece of paper--a disclaimer of rights--from you confirming this.  If the
>     program is not very important, we can do without one; the worst that could
>     happen is that we might some day be forced to stop using it.

In fact I do have a few commits made on my behalf, considered tiny
enough to go without a copyright assignment. Any more contributions
would be pushing it, or so I was told.