Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Nov 2012 21:16:34 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Streamlining Developer's Certificate of Origin, Signed-off-by tag |
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On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:59:40 -0800 "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> wrote:
> So it turns out everyone and their mother's attorneys love the > Signed-off-by tag and its definition as explained on the Linux kernel > under the Developer's Certificate of Origin. Its to the extent other > projects have picked it up and started documenting their own > documentation for submitting patches to embrace the same definition, > some without knowing what they were doing, some knowingly and > rightfully doing so. I think it'd be good to see more embracement of > the tag but to help do this it occurs to me perhaps it'd be good to > treat the 'Developer's Certificate of Origin' as a standalone > document that we can reference independently, and then have the kernel > itself refer to it. That is, provide a unified easy way to refer to > the practice for requiring the SOB tag and what it means. > > Thoughts?
Nobody is stopping you putting a copy on a web site.
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