>>>>> On Sat, 22 Oct 2016, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 09:19:36AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: >> This is from the last policy draft: >> https://dev.gentoo.org/~rich0/copyrightpolicy.xml
> Why redraft the already-useful DCO that is out there for you to use > as-is: > http://developercertificate.org/ > As you copied the text, be sure to give proper reference to who owns > the copyright of that text please, you just can't rename it and > claim it as your own :) In fact, Rich *does* give credit to Linux: "The DCO is based on the http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/SubmittingPatches Linux Kernel DCO" Also, I wouldn't completely exclude that we need to change the wording at some later point. Therefore, we may indeed consider taking the DCO from the Linux source tree which is distributed under the GPL-2, instead of the non-free version ("changing it is not allowed") from developercertificate.org. Their wording is identical except for the preamble. Ulrich
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