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. Clément.