>>>>> On Sun, 16 Sep 2018, Michał Górny wrote: > Just FYI: the Trustees have approved GLEP 76 aka our new copyright > policy [1]. While the exact implementation details are to be determined > yet, please note that *Signed-off-by* line will mean you are certifying > our GCO [2].
> Since some developers were giving the sign-off 'in blanco' so far, > I would like to emphasize that now it will actually mean agreeing to > the document. Unless you have read the new policy and agreed with it, > please don't do that. I wonder how we should treat those existing Signed-off-by lines in the tree. We could either say that we ignore any such lines on commits before 2018-09-16 00:00:00 UTC, because there was no policy in place. Or we could say that they certify the commit under the Linux DCO 1.1 (https://developercertificate.org/), because in absence of an explicit policy that's the only meaningful interpretation of a Signed-off-by line. Presumably, the first alternative is cleaner. Especially, since there are commits with a Signed-off-by line that don't comply with the conditions of the Linux DCO. Ulrich > [1]:https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0076.html > [2]:https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0076.html#certificate-of-origin
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