Re: How to contribute

2023-06-03 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[self-follow-up] At 2023-06-03T09:47:13-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > On the other hand, many years ago when I stopped merely listening to > what everybody said about the FSF, and started digging into the > copyright details of various GNU packages, I found more flexibility > there than I had

Re: Should temporary indentation be ignored when centering?

2023-06-03 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-06-03T15:04:15+, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 02:52:02AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > I'll be pushing a commit to comment out this incorrect statement, > > rather than deleting it, because I think perhaps we should change > > this behavior. [...] > Th

Re: How to contribute

2023-06-03 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-06-03T16:00:55+, Michał Kruszewski wrote: > By patches you mean `git diff` output? That should work fine. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How to contribute

2023-06-03 Thread Michał Kruszewski
By patches you mean `git diff` output? Best regards, Michał Kruszewski Sent with Proton Mail secure email. --- Original Message --- On Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 at 4:47 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Michał, > > (Please let me know if you're prefer not to be CCed.) > > Let me

Re: Should temporary indentation be ignored when centering?

2023-06-03 Thread Bjarni Ingi Gislason
On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 02:52:02AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi all, > > For just over 23 years, since commit e9b0d52dec, our Texinfo manual has > claimed that temporary indentation is ignored when lines are being > centered with the `ce` request. > > But that is not the case in groff 1

Re: How to contribute

2023-06-03 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Michał, (Please let me know if you're prefer _not_ to be CCed.) Let me offer you some perspectives from someone who _does_ contribute to groff, to contrast with quick responses from someone who's sworn not to. At 2023-06-03T10:25:16+, Michał Kruszewski via wrote: > Is there any tutorial o

Re: How to contribute

2023-06-03 Thread Michał Kruszewski
I do not believe it works this way. It would be extremely stupid. I can image this applies when you copy large amount of code, but single 25 lines function? No one would contribute to GNU projects if it worked like this. Best regards, Michał Kruszewski Sent with Proton Mail secure email. ---

Re: How to contribute

2023-06-03 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Michał, > Alas, groff's requirement for copyright assignment to the FSF ruled > out contributions from me many years ago after the FSF's legal > counsel confirmed they'd hold partial copyright on a non-groff work > which contained code of copyrightable expression if I later used

Re: How to contribute

2023-06-03 Thread Michał Kruszewski
Alas, groff's requirement for copyright assignment to the FSF ruled out contributions from me many years ago after the FSF's legal counsel confirmed they'd hold partial copyright on a non-groff work which contained code of copyrightable expression if I later used it in groff; th

Re: How to contribute

2023-06-03 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Michał, > Where do I need to register? For any significant contribution in copyright terms, you'll have to sign an assignment of copyright of your work to the FSF and it's GNU groff. https://www.fsf.org/licensing/contributor-faq That put me off. Alas, groff's requirement for copyrig

How to contribute

2023-06-03 Thread Michał Kruszewski via
Is there any tutorial on how to contribute to the groff? The https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/ website is rather modest in this term. Where do I need to register? How to prepare pull requests? Best regards, Michał Kruszewski Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email.