this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2026
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Nah, you contact a maintainer. They do it for you. You just have to supply code and licensing info and stuff
Oh, okay. That sounds easy. Is this a one-time thing or do you have to do this for every update you push?
Depends on the update. If you add new lib depends, they'll ask for the licensing of them (and if you include a closed source blob they might kick you out).
But most of the time you just do your own Dev and they'll update without needing to communicate to them.
Thank you for the insight :)