On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Greg KH <gre...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 09:19:36AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> The last draft DCO was: >> Gentoo DCO 1.0 By making a contribution to this project, I certify >> that: (a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I >> have the right to submit it under the open source license indicated in >> the file; or (b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to >> the best of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source >> license and I have the right under that license to submit that work >> with modifications, whether created in whole or in part by me, under >> the same open source license (unless I am permitted to submit under a >> different license), as indicated in the file; or (c) The contribution >> was provided directly to me by some other person who certified (a), >> (b) or (c) and I have not modified it. (d) I understand and agree that >> this project and the contribution are public and that a record of the >> contribution (including all personal information I submit with it, >> including my sign-off) is maintained indefinitely and may be >> redistributed consistent with this project or the open source >> license(s) involved. >> >> This is from the last policy draft: >> https://dev.gentoo.org/~rich0/copyrightpolicy.xml > > Why redraft the already-useful DCO that is out there for you to use > as-is: > http://developercertificate.org/
To be honest I don't remember. The last time I touched it was years ago and maybe there was a reason to fork it at the time, but I can't see a reason for it now. > > As you copied the text, be sure to give proper reference to who owns the > copyright of that text please, you just can't rename it and claim it as > your own :) > Makes sense. I'd suggest copying it into the policy and attributing it vs just incorporating it by reference, since the original might go away (though we've already demonstrated that our own guidexml has not lasted as long as that hosted text file). -- Rich
