Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 12:06:18 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199807131606.MAA13550@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: reminder about sending changes to the FSF
Precedence: bulk


Please remember to send ALL your changes to FSF packages back to the
FSF (or the appropriate maintainer) to be integrated into the official
sources.  This has several advantages:

1. If someone else wants to build a package, the patches are there.

2. You won't have to keep applying the patches (and/or forgetting
   some) over and over again.

3. The FSF will verify that the patches may be legally included in the
   sources.

The third is the important one.  It would be bad for DJGPP to be
accused of using code that it wasn't entitled to use.  The FSF has
experience with such things, and will ensure that the appropriate
legal steps have been taken to ensure that the changes will continue
to be usable.

DJ