Re: Developer's Certificate of Origin

>>>>> On Mon, 25 Nov 2024, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> The DCO v1.1 published on https://developercertificate.org/ says:

>  Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
>  Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
>  license document, but changing it is not allowed.

> The license appears non-free to me, does anyone disagree?

> The text is widely included in Debian main packages.

> Is there any policy exception to allow this?

> The DCO is not a license text, which seems to be the only exception I
> know of, so having the text appear under a non-modifiable license
> doesn't seem appropriate for main.

> Does anyone know a way to talk to the Linux Foundation and ask them to
> release the text into the public domain?  Or at least release it under
> some license that allows modifications.

It was released under CC-BY-SA-2.5 in 2005:

| © 2005 Open Source Development Labs, Inc.
| The Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1 is licensed under a
| Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
| If you modify you must use a name or title distinguishable from
| "Developer's Certificate of Origin" or "DCO" or any confusingly
| similar name.

https://web.archive.org/web/20060524185355/http://www.osdlab.org/newsroom/press_releases/2004/2004_05_24_dco.html

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