Will the s-o-b enforcement mechanism insist on GPL or will
it also allow "compatible" or partially compatible submissions
such as LGPL (like the original HAL) or totally unrestricted
code (perhaps BSD)?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Epler [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2014 10:18 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Emc-developers] Formally implementing 
> "Signed-off-by" / Developer Certificate of Origin
> 
> A problem that has arisen several times in the history of LinuxCNC is
> that a well-meaning developer contributes to the software, but their
> additions are not explicitly licensed.  If they have moved on to other
> projects by the time someone realizes this, it can be difficult to get
> their permission later simply because of their disinterest.  If they
> have added new files or added code in files without a license block,
> this problem is compounded.

<snip>

> I also believe that we should implement a pre-receive or update hook
> that checks for s-o-b headers and rejects any push that doesn't have
> them; I have a partially implemented script for that, but it's not
> debugged yet.  Otherwise, un-s-o-b'd code will inevitably creep in by
> the actions of well-meaning developers.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 


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