How big and/or complicated have your patches been? Copyright assignment is not necessary for not-legally significant changes: https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain

How big and/or complicated have your patches been? Copyright assignment is not necessary for not-legally significant changes: https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Legally-Significant https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Legally-Sign... Copyright assignment has long been used as an argument of why not to contribute to FSF projects, and is arguably one of the reasons that Clang/LLVM were able to garner contributions from a much broader set of folks.