Dnia September 16, 2018 8:59:50 AM UTC, Ulrich Mueller <[email protected]> napisał(a): >>>>>> 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.
I don't think we really need to be concerned about them right now. AFAIU the whole signoff business boils down to two things: verifying that contributors understand the terms of contributing, and protecting Gentoo from liability for commits violating those terms. I think that in this context only the latter point really matters, and I don't think making statement either way right now would change anything if we ever had to exercise it. > >Ulrich > >> [1]:https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0076.html >> [2]:https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0076.html#certificate-of-origin -- Best regards, Michał Górny
