Re: Call for volunteers to check manual files

[David Kastrup]

Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:

> This is a call for volunteers to help check the manuals for the
> upcoming Emacs 22 release.

[...]

>    At the end, run M-x diff and attach the patch to your report.

It must be noted that it is largely useless to actually provide a
patch or rephrasing in most cases unless you are also willing to
provide a copyright assignment in writing to the FSF for your changes:
all copyrightable material (and a literal patch is likely to introduce
such) is only accepted into Emacs under this condition.

So just pointing out what's wrong is the best people can manage
without paperwork.  Of course, the paperwork in itself is not arduous,
but you have to be sure that your work contracts actually allow you to
participate in external projects.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum