On Sat, 2014-03-22 at 16:12 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > On 03/22/2014 01:33 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > Dear Ian, > > > > In message <[email protected]> you wrote: > >> > >>> What does that mean? I cannot find these names in the SoB lines? > >> > >> I explained the process by which I arrived at these lists in 0/9. It > >> means that they appear as an author for a commit in the history in the > >> u-boot-sunxi.git, but did not supply an S-o-b. However I am adding my > >> own S-o-b under clause (b) of the DCO, which I believe applies here. > > > > Please read (again) what the Developer's Certificate of Origin means. > > It appears that such code would fall under clause (c): > > > > The contribution was provided directly to me by some other > > person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified > > it. > > No as said before the parts for which we don't have a Signed-off-by > for falls under b), since we took it from existing code which has clear > GPLv2+ license headers on each and every file.
Thanks, this is just what I was just about to say. > b) Reads: > > (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 > > Did for example "j" or "hehopmajieh" provide such certificates to you? > > > >> It's entirely possible that none of these peoples' contributions still > >> remain in the files being upstreamed, but figuring that out for sure > >> would be a large and manual task. As I explained in 0/9 I prefer to > >> over-credit by mentioning people whose actual contributions no longer > >> remain rather than fail to credit someone whose contribution does > > > > The Sob is only partially for crediting; the major purpose is to make > > sure we really have the full rights to distribute such code under the > > listed licenses. To guarantee that, the chain of certificates mustnot > > be interrupted. > > Right, and we do since the files we're basing our work on is GPLv2+ licensed, > the purpose of the listing of extra names other then the Signed-off-by: > tags is for solely for attribution. Right. > Note in some cases we do have email addresses and Ian has said he will add > those > in the next version, Actually in every case we have email addresses, I just omitted them up until now (since a credit doesn't strictly need one). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
