Re: Developer's Certificate of Origin

Soren Stoutner <[email protected]> Wed, 27 Nov 2024 03:46:13 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.legal
Organization Debian
Message-ID <2248170.00Fmr1mnO7@soren-desktop>
Simon,

On Wednesday, November 27, 2024 2:48:51 AM MST Simon Josefsson wrote:
> I don't follow.  Do you believe the DCO is a license text?

Yes.  There is no question that the DCO is a license.  It says right in the 
text it is a license.

> And that the DCO is part of the license that applies to the work in Debian?

The DCO is a license, but it is not the license given to the end users of the 
project.  It is the license given from the contributor to the project (in 
other words, it is a Contributor License Agreement).  Similar to copyright 
statements, when paired with the end-user license, it provides documentation 
the project had the rights to license the software the way they did.