On 28. 6. 2018 8:58, Mario Emmenlauer wrote:
Dear All,there are quite many packages that require significant patches. Is there a clear policy whether these patches are pushed upstream? I was hoping that most patches would be pushed upstream and eventually your great work would be incorporated into the upstream source.
Yes, we want to push patches upstream where it makes sense. Of course, the quality of our local patches may not be high enough to be upstream "as is", so there could be a lot of work involved. Some upstreams don't even want patches for mingw-w64. It's a mixed bag. :/
I can put some effort into this. But only if there is consent that patches may be passed on upstream. What is the copyright status of the patches and sources in MINGW-packages now?
If you want to be super correct about this, you'll have to get a license for each patch (or even a patch change) from each contributor, but IMO the common understanding is that the patches are contributed with an implicit agreement that we can use them in any reasonable way, including upstreaming. -- David Macek
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