Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 08 Dec 2012 11:22:57 -0500 | From | "W. Trevor King" <> | Subject | Re: Streamlining Developer's Certificate of Origin, Signed-off-by tag |
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:10:43AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Not just a separate document but project / github / whatever given > > that other projects are referring to it now, and we stand to gain more > > in the community by streamlining it more and making it ubiquitous. > > Cutting and pasting it somewhere works (subject to whatever licensing > it may have itself), as does having a list and a location for a copy, but > you still want it in the tree proper.
For easy inclusion (preserving history), I've pulled out commits for the DCO and related Signed-off-by documentation from Linux and Git into a new repository [1].
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 09:25:15AM -0500, W. Trevor King wrote: > So. What license is the DCO distributed under and who holds > copyright?
The Git project did some similar copying of the DCO into a new project [2] and is (like the kernel) distributed under the GPLv2 exact. To be consistent with this, I've also released the new signed-off-by repository under the GPLv2 exact. If you're using a GPLv2 exact project, you can merge the `signed-off-by` branch into your project directly.
Because many projects that are not GPLv2 may still want to use the DCO/s-o-b approach, I've included an example CONTRIBUTING file (and CONTRIBUTING.md for GitHub) that are licensed under the very permissive Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal. Merge the `contributing` or `contributing-github` branch into your project and edit as you see fit. For an example, see the GPLv{2,3} rss2email [3].
Cheers, Trevor
[1]: https://github.com/wking/signed-off-by https://github.com/wking/signed-off-by.git git://github.com/wking/signed-off-by.git [2]: https://github.com/gitster/git/commit/314082512403f7f6969cc6d5ded4a48c68a9962e [3]: https://github.com/wking/rss2email/
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