FYI: [gnu.org #10042] Ranjit Mathew

Fri Jan 10 02:27:00 GMT 2003

>>>>> "John" == John Murga <john@murga.org> writes:

John> Is it necessary to get "copyright assignment" before getting a
John> patch accepted ? I don't understand... or should I be RTFM ing ?
John> 8-)
I can point you at the FM if you like.
The short answer is that patches over a certain size and/or complexity
require copyright assignment. This also applies to a number of small
patches. The rule of thumb is that more than 10 lines of code needs
an assignment. This is a general rule across all of gcc (except those
few parts not owned by the FSF) and many other GNU projects.
Tom