From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965384Ab2LHRXO (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Dec 2012 12:23:14 -0500 Received: from vms173007pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.7]:48983 "EHLO vms173007pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964888Ab2LHRXN (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Dec 2012 12:23:13 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 3600 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 08 Dec 2012 12:23:13 EST Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 11:22:57 -0500 From: "W. Trevor King" To: Alan Cox , Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Arend van Spriel , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexey Dobriyan , Jim Meyering , Junio C Hamano , Miklos Vajna , Paolo Ciarrocchi , Ramkumar Ramachandra , Willy Tarreau , Zac Storer Subject: Re: Streamlining Developer's Certificate of Origin, Signed-off-by tag Message-id: <20121208162257.GA27005@odin.tremily.us> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary=FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-disposition: inline In-reply-to: <20121124232202.GA29962@odin.tremily.us> <20121124142515.GA26479@odin.tremily.us> <20121121001043.7e1a68df@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> OpenPGP: id=39A2F3FA2AB17E5D8764F388FC29BDCDF15F5BE8; url=http://tremily.us/pubkey.txt User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > 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/314082512403f7f6969cc6d5ded4a48c= 68a9962e [3]: https://github.com/wking/rss2email/ --=20 This email may be signed or encrypted with GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org). For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQw2leAAoJEEUbTsx0l5OM9yEP/jGMzQmlIgQ+pLrb9td5FdNR zPGvOPp0epbGco5dwLrDFkULKBN/eIneMJcQkdaTy8QW/QMQhYIgtgs+mdf07+s+ sdx5Z8bFDfu3kzEttZqfy3GVsNomKM+VdgjmaKQJc7V3bR7YDCJxSxOaxqYRWDJc DTJUiKj/D9DkaR/fslSlyw92X2n5XjM9lV91FCNFrNVbxiqkamRaOCLVWgJUNtAv HV/o6JJxrJDdhfhlBgMjFGN4EkuO7JEkn4GYlqDG0Qf+TdLBehOhU+w0gzs9JZxV 0ORnJXEafPvT+TgmnaprYYB1uNKOiPQWAiB4ulitkA57OcP0Lguu4TinteA+8W9/ AaeicI8veZULfv5Ip1tyvP74+vtXlZEWDGOKleK2Xy76JC2nvW3rvx4BdPnWFayr 7nAbYzynG3B3L+eN4BzYOxVn0Tcdy73oqtH77zKPrYrV2m5aTOCQBAF3HKawIg2e efhP7r0h7JyJsy1UYSoU+Q29yZZI6QEvlVMhY7CM2YV/OvmK2V8SjFs8AOEH5Jl+ oVb3svHmZLhsTiRUSyUhT+oXJ96zna6KqxHiL+tU9ctn8A2o5SizzulXKw8XXDGG i04dJ5cBdUWSY6bAL48u+TLB9u43mRu0O8+mkxVnjvFDCuSXRlqA0NztjU4NukAl eNBHB2pcybqBa5J4kbs+ =KZsL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5--