Confusion with submitting changes

Kyle Marek psppsn96 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 29 22:44:55 CDT 2014


On 07/29/2014 11:31 PM, Nikolay Sivov wrote:
>> Can I not make a pull request on my changes?
>
> No.
>
>> I  also noticed that it said that not everyone can submit patches and i
>> inferred by the linked pages that it's to prevent legal trouble. How can
>> I become eligible to submit changes?
>
> There are certain rules to that, wiki probably has that information
> already. For example your patches will be rejected automatically if
> you had/have access to MS source code, doesn't matter if it's
> available for general public or not. Also you can't use implementation
> details information extracted using Wine's tracing. You can't
> disassemble native modules of course. Maybe there's more but these are
> the most important.
I've read these rules. Is this it? I haven't had access to Microsoft
source code nor do I plan to use wine's tracking or plan to disassemble
anything; It's pretty much legal common sense to avoid that. So, I am
pretty much eligible to submit changes?



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