title: Porting systemd To New Distributions
category: Concepts
layout: default
+SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
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# Porting systemd To New Distributions
## Contributing Upstream
-We generally do no longer accept distribution-specific patches to
+We generally no longer accept distribution-specific patches to
systemd upstream. If you have to make changes to systemd's source code
to make it work on your distribution, unless your code is generic
enough to be generally useful, we are unlikely to merge it. Please