Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753776Ab2KTVLS (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:11:18 -0500 Received: from lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ([81.2.110.251]:33204 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753269Ab2KTVLR (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:11:17 -0500 Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 21:16:34 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Streamlining Developer's Certificate of Origin, Signed-off-by tag Message-ID: <20121120211634.11513416@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.8; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1219 Lines: 25 On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:59:40 -0800 "Luis R. Rodriguez" wrote: > So it turns out everyone and their mother's attorneys love the > Signed-off-by tag and its definition as explained on the Linux kernel > under the Developer's Certificate of Origin. Its to the extent other > projects have picked it up and started documenting their own > documentation for submitting patches to embrace the same definition, > some without knowing what they were doing, some knowingly and > rightfully doing so. I think it'd be good to see more embracement of > the tag but to help do this it occurs to me perhaps it'd be good to > treat the 'Developer's Certificate of Origin' as a standalone > document that we can reference independently, and then have the kernel > itself refer to it. That is, provide a unified easy way to refer to > the practice for requiring the SOB tag and what it means. > > Thoughts? Nobody is stopping you putting a copy on a web site. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/