RFC: Removing the DCO-1.1 provision in the copyright policy
Michał Górny <[email protected]> Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:59:26 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.gentoo.devel |
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| Organization | Gentoo |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi, GLEP 76 has a special provision [1] that permits using kernel DCO intead of our GCO: > Alternatively, and if it is applicable, committers can certify their > commits with the Linux Kernel DCO 1.1 [8]. This shall be indicated by > adding (DCO-1.1) at the end of the Signed-off-by line. Using the > Gentoo Certificate of Origin is strongly preferred. This dates back to 2013. According to a quick grep across default branches of all repositories in git.gentoo.org, there is not a single commit using this provision. Therefore I'd like to propose that we remove it and require GCO for all commits. [1] https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0076.html#certificate-of-origin -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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