On Jul 21 15:38, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 21 14:15, Jon Turney wrote: > > If Radek is going to be adding Signed-off: lines of behalf of his > > colleagues, maybe this is an appropriate place to ask what he thinks he's > > attesting to with it? > > > > > > Corinna, > > > > Maybe the "Before you get started" section in [1] should mention Signed-off: > > and what we think it means? > > That's a good point. > > dll.html is outdated. We don't use the CONTRIBUTORS file anymore. It > was a remnant of the past, when we switched our license and we still > needed to keep track of the developers and the 2-clause BSD rule while > long-living contracts with the old buyout license were still active.
On second thought, I think we should rename the file to PAST_CONTRIBUTORS and prepend some lines that we switched to the Developer Certificate of Origin, pointing to dll.html... > These days, I would like to enforce the Signed-off-by: line and it > should have the same place and same significance as in the Linux kernel, > that is... > > https://developercertificate.org/ > > Briefly, the sign-off means, that the contributor has, both, the right > and the willingness, to contribute code to this project under the > project's open source license, i.e., GPL v3+ in case of Cygwin. > > > If we really want it to be mandatory, I guess I could explore the > > possibility of a push hook to enforce that? > > > > [1] https://cygwin.com/contrib/dll.html ...and dll.html should be written anew from the pararaph starting with "If your change is going to be a significant one"... by just stating that we expect a Developer Certificate of Origin per https://developercertificate.org/, i.e., a "Signed-off-by:" line per patch. Does that sound about right? Thanks, Corinna > Yeah, but there's one twist: We don't and can't enforce Signed-off-by: > lines in case of contributions to newlib. Newlib is not under GPL. > Rather it's a collection of multiple open source licenses. So in case > of newlib the meaning of a signed-off is rather fuzzy. > > Therefore we only can enforce contributions to Cygwin code and docs. > > > Corinna
