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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.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.
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