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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Streamlining Developer's Certificate of Origin, Signed-off-by tag
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:10:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121121001043.7e1a68df@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB=NE6UnA2o7ur+0WGouJR984LqtdTYey41XzQCvAw1djhkOkA@mail.gmail.com>

> 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.

There's a reason that lawyers copy documents into other documents rather
than doing late dynamic binding - you want to be sure that what you
reference is the *exact* text that is valid for this case.

If you have a single master official copy and a link then you break all
that and you'd have to have everyones consensus and planning to change a
word of it.


Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-21  0:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-20 20:59 Streamlining Developer's Certificate of Origin, Signed-off-by tag Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-11-20 21:16 ` Alan Cox
2012-11-20 22:08   ` Arend van Spriel
2012-11-20 22:21     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-11-21  0:10       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2012-11-21  1:13         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-11-21  9:40           ` Jiri Slaby
2012-11-21 14:54           ` Alan Cox
2012-11-24 14:25         ` W. Trevor King
2012-12-08 16:22         ` W. Trevor King
2013-02-26 21:37           ` Luis R. Rodriguez

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