From 4200f091ff71796bedb807a3cfec9b49cf705810 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: diego Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 13:26:51 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add a section about handling external code to the policy. git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@29411 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2 --- DOCS/tech/svn-howto.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/DOCS/tech/svn-howto.txt b/DOCS/tech/svn-howto.txt index 126e809ee4..6bdc2bfcfc 100644 --- a/DOCS/tech/svn-howto.txt +++ b/DOCS/tech/svn-howto.txt @@ -315,6 +315,15 @@ II. POLICY / RULES: 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 !!!! We think our rules are not too hard. If you have comments, contact us.