Getting started with contributing

[Bernardo Innocenti]

Giovanni Bajo wrote:

> Also, remember to file papers for copyright assignment to the FSF, which is a
> prerequisite for accepting any patch.

Filing papers is a prerequisite for legally significant changes only:

  http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Legally-Significant


And, btw, it may take about a month for the paperwork to
do the round trip from the FSF copyright clerk and back.

When you file your request, be sure to mention a few ancillary
or related projects such as libstdc++, autoconf, binutils, GDB,
and maybe others... Just to make sure this is a one-time hassle.

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