Re: Developer's Certificate of Origin

mån 2024-11-25 klockan 08:56 +0100 skrev Ulrich Müller:
> > > > > > 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

Thanks for the pointer!  That DCO v1.1 is not identical either the old
v1.0 or the v1.1 published on https://developercertificate.org/ - here
is the wdiff between the two 1.1 versions:

(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other person
who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
    [-it.-] {+it; and+}

(d) {+In the case of each of (a), (b), or (c),+} I understand and agree
that this project and the contribution are public and that a record of
the contribution (including all personal information I submit with it,
including my sign-off) is maintained indefinitely and may be
redistributed consistent with this project or the open source [-
license(s) involved.-] {+license
indicated in the file.+}

/Simon

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