From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: storm@cua.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Installing patches without getting legal papers.
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:18:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E186wTr-00030o-00@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fzup40xw.fsf@pot.cnuce.cnr.it> (message from Francesco Potorti` on 29 Oct 2002 18:19:55 +0100)
> Some time ago, RMS recommanded to me that when installing _small_
> patches received from "external sources" without proper legal papers,
> those changes should be marked with "(tiny change)" in the ChangeLog
> [in case you want to attribute the change to the person who submitted
> the patch].
Maintain.texi needs to be amended to that effect. Currently it says:
Yes, it will have to be changed eventually. Right now this is still
an experiment.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-30 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-28 22:44 Installing patches without getting legal papers Kim F. Storm
2002-10-29 7:37 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-10-30 17:16 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-30 17:48 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-10-31 17:26 ` Richard Stallman
2002-11-04 7:40 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-11-04 18:06 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-29 11:29 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-29 17:19 ` Francesco Potorti`
2002-10-30 17:18 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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