From: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Developer's Certificate of Origin: default to COPYING
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 19:15:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52324B1A.2030001@bbn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFyQZ8EiOg+CZy-KMaX0Hnkdmvq1+8b9p6uuMuHAUzYaAg@mail.gmail.com>
On 2013-09-12 18:44, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Linus, this is not limited to us, so I am bothering you; sorry about
>> that.
>>
>> My instinct tells me that some competent lawyers at linux-foundation
>> helped you with the wording of DCO, and we amateurs shouldn't be
>> mucking with the text like this patch does at all, but just in case
>> you might find it interesting...
>
> There were lawyers involved, yes.
>
> I'm not sure there is any actual confusion, because the fact is,
> lawyers aren't robots or programmers, and they have the human
> qualities of understanding implications.
Well stated. :)
> So I'm actually inclined to
> not change legal text unless a lawyer actually tells me that it's
> needed.
Is it worthwhile to poke a lawyer about this as a precaution? (If so,
who?) Or do we wait for a motivating event?
>
> Plus even if this change was needed, why would anybody point to
> "COPYING". It's much better to just say "the copyright license of the
> file", knowing that different projects have different rules about this
> all, and some projects mix files from different sources, where parts
> of the tree may be under different licenses that may be explained
> elsewhere..
I agree that your phrasing is better.
-Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-12 23:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-12 22:11 [PATCH/RFC] Developer's Certificate of Origin: default to COPYING Richard Hansen
2013-09-12 22:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-12 22:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-12 23:15 ` Richard Hansen [this message]
2013-09-12 23:24 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-09-12 23:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-13 1:18 ` W. Trevor King
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