Re: [PATCH glep] glep-0076: Remove kernel DCO use provision

Sam James <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:22:39 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.gentoo.devel
Organization	Gentoo
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Michał Górny <[email protected]> writes:

> Remove the provision that the kernel DCO can be used instead of the GCO.
> This provision has been never used.

The point of it was that having a bespoke GCO can be problematic for
contributors. That nobody has used it yet doesn't mean it won't help a
(likely corporate) contributor in future.

I'd prefer it if we just left it in.

>
> Discussion: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/[email protected]/
> Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <[email protected]>
> ---
>  glep-0076.rst | 11 +++--------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/glep-0076.rst b/glep-0076.rst
> index 635727c..3542652 100644
> --- a/glep-0076.rst
> +++ b/glep-0076.rst
> @@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ Author: Richard Freeman <[email protected]>,
>          Michał Górny <[email protected]>
>  Type: Informational
>  Status: Active
> -Version: 2
> +Version: 2.1
>  Created: 2013-04-23
> -Last-Modified: 2026-05-20
> +Last-Modified: 2026-06-22
>  Post-History: 2018-06-10, 2018-06-19, 2018-08-31, 2018-09-26, 2023-03-02,
> -              2024-04-04
> +              2024-04-04, 2026-06-22
>  Content-Type: text/x-rst
>  ---
>  
> @@ -176,11 +176,6 @@ Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License [#CC-BY-SA-4.0]_.
>  It is based on the Linux Kernel DCO [#OSDL-DCO]_, released by Open
>  Source Development Labs, Inc. in 2005 under a CC-BY-SA-2.5 License.
>  
> -Alternatively, and if it is applicable, committers can certify their
> -commits with the Linux Kernel DCO 1.1 [#DCO-1.1]_.  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.
> -
>  
>  Copyright Attribution
>  ---------------------

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