Re: [PATCH/RFC] Developer's Certificate of Origin: default to COPYING

2013-09-12 Thread W. Trevor King
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 04:25:03PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Richard Hansen wrote: > > > > Is it worthwhile to poke a lawyer about this as a precaution? (If so, > > who?) Or do we wait for a motivating event? > > I can poke the lawyer that was originally in

Re: [PATCH/RFC] Developer's Certificate of Origin: default to COPYING

2013-09-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Richard Hansen wrote: > > Is it worthwhile to poke a lawyer about this as a precaution? (If so, > who?) Or do we wait for a motivating event? I can poke the lawyer that was originally involved. If people know other lawyers, feel free to poke them too. Just ask t

Re: [PATCH/RFC] Developer's Certificate of Origin: default to COPYING

2013-09-12 Thread Richard Hansen
On 2013-09-12 18:44, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Linus, this is not limited to us, so I am bothering you; sorry about >> that. >> >> My instinct tells me that some competent lawyers at linux-foundation >> helped you with the wording of DCO, and

Re: [PATCH/RFC] Developer's Certificate of Origin: default to COPYING

2013-09-12 Thread Theodore Ts'o
I certainly wouldn't recommend messing with the text of the DCO without first consulting some lawyers. There should also be some centralized coordination about any changes in the text and the version number. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: s

Re: [PATCH/RFC] Developer's Certificate of Origin: default to COPYING

2013-09-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Linus, this is not limited to us, so I am bothering you; sorry about > that. > > My instinct tells me that some competent lawyers at linux-foundation > helped you with the wording of DCO, and we amateurs shouldn't be > mucking with the text

Re: [PATCH/RFC] Developer's Certificate of Origin: default to COPYING

2013-09-12 Thread Junio C Hamano
Linus, this is not limited to us, so I am bothering you; sorry about that. My instinct tells me that some competent lawyers at linux-foundation helped you with the wording of DCO, and we amateurs shouldn't be mucking with the text like this patch does at all, but just in case you might find it int

[PATCH/RFC] Developer's Certificate of Origin: default to COPYING

2013-09-12 Thread Richard Hansen
The "Developer's Certificate of Origin" refers to "the open source license indicated in the file", but there is no such indication in most files in the Git repository. Update the text to indicate that the license in COPYING should be assumed if a file doesn't excplicitly indicate which license app