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List:       wine-devel
Subject:    Re: Confusion with submitting changes
From:       Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani () redhat ! com>
Date:       2014-07-30 7:31:49
Message-ID: 53D89F65.7000008 () redhat ! com
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On 07/30/2014 05:44 AM, Kyle Marek wrote:
> 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?
Then you should be fine.

bye
	michael


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