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Re: [PATCH] Assume that pipe2 is always available
On 04/18/2017 08:40 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 04/18/2017 02:25 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>> and then if you have time sync hurd patches with debian. It would
>>> be good to have some hurd developer to ack about these patches as
>>> well...
>>
>> I think the way the GNU copyright assignment works is that the
>> author has to submit it. We can take patches elsewhere, even if
>> the apparent author has an assignment on file.
>
> Sorry, what I meant is: We *cannot* take patches from elsewhere.
I agree.
We should only incorporate patches that were sent to libc-alpha.
Even if we could legally incorporate any publicly posted patch from
the author, we should *never* do that.
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Cheers,
Carlos.