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Add a section about handling external code to the policy.
author diego
date Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:26:51 +0000
parents 0053327cd036
children 059ff1f4e280
files DOCS/tech/svn-howto.txt
diffstat 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/DOCS/tech/svn-howto.txt	Fri Jul 03 16:10:58 2009 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/tech/svn-howto.txt	Sat Jul 04 13:26:51 2009 +0000
@@ -315,6 +315,15 @@
     IRC is good for quick discussions, but nobody is there 24/7.
 
 
+14. MPlayer contains some external code that is partly patched, partly copied
+    verbatim (see Copyright for details). This code should not be modified
+    unless there is a very good reason. Much of it is maintained upstream.
+    We should be good open source citizens, submit our fixes upstream and keep
+    the differences as small as possible.
+    If you have to modify external code, do not forget to update the diff file
+    with our local changes.
+
+
 Also read DOCS/tech/patches.txt !!!!
 
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