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
> > > >
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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
At 2023-06-03T16:00:55+, Michał Kruszewski wrote:
> By patches you mean `git diff` output?
That should work fine.
Regards,
Branden
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> 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 on how to contribute to
any tutorial on how to contribute to the groff?
The source distribution contains some files along these lines (or it
does as of recent 1.23.0 release candidates). I'd start with "HACKING".
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/HACKING
> The https://www.gnu.org/so
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
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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
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
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
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
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