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-legal papers. Anything more substantial requires a copyright
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-larger changes). Both of these involved filling out a short form and
-filing it with the FSF. The process is straightforward -- contact us
-at emacs-devel@gnu.org to obtain the relevant forms.
+The FSF (Free Software Foundation) is the copyright holder for GNU Emacs.
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+
+Generally speaking, for non-trivial contributions to GNU Emacs we
+require that the copyright be assigned to the FSF. For the reasons
+behind this, see: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html .
+Copyright assignment is a simple process. If you live in the US, you
+can do it entirely electronically. We can help you get started, and
+answer any questions you may have (or point you to the people with the
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+
+A copyright disclaimer is also a possibility, but we prefer an assignment.
+We can accept small changes (roughly, fewer than 15 lines) without
+an assignment. This is a cumulative limit (e.g. three separate 5 line
+patches) over all your contributions.
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