Just noticed this change on
http://wiki.meego.com/Release_Engineering/New_Package_Checklist :

Step 1: agreed upon by copyright owner

Please make sure copyright owner of this new package agree putting it
in public MeeGo OBS of http://build.meego.com. Especially if it's
owned by a company, we need to be more careful. For package owned by
Intel, please make sure it passes open source PDT. Nokia has similar
process inside.

While this is great, considering the latest 'scare' in Android about
copying Oracle code, I have a suggestion to formalize it a bit, as we
seem to be missing this in package process:

Consider applying the signed-off-by method agreed by the TSG (quite
some time ago) for package modifications/new packages? That is,
http://meego.com/about/contribution-guidelines/signed-process .

In practice, this would mean adding Signed-off-by: in submit requests
description. Then we also have a trail of who originally
submitted/who's to blame for uploading code they had no right to - and
a official process that can we can show to lawyers that someone
misrepresented their contribution to MeeGo.

It would also open up for safe 'sponsored uploads', where someone with
build.meego.com account helps someone without to submit a change
towards Trunk:Testing.

How does that sound?

Best regards,
Carsten Munk
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