Re: Streamlining Developer's Certificate of Origin, Signed-off-by tag

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 8:22 AM, W. Trevor King <wking@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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].

This is awesome, thanks! I've started to use your work in my projects.
I'll Cc you on an e-mail post about this and copyleft-next section 7.

  Luis
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