Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753473Ab2KUBOE (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:14:04 -0500 Received: from mail-la0-f46.google.com ([209.85.215.46]:62801 "EHLO mail-la0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752159Ab2KUBOC (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:14:02 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20121121001043.7e1a68df@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> References: <20121120211634.11513416@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> <50ABFF4E.2050101@broadcom.com> <20121121001043.7e1a68df@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:13:40 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: FnmEJaDQcxE0S-JdyczhTGFpBV8 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Streamlining Developer's Certificate of Origin, Signed-off-by tag To: Alan Cox Cc: Arend van Spriel , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1339 Lines: 29 On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> Not just a separate document but project / github / whatever given >> that other projects are referring to it now, and we stand to gain more >> in the community by streamlining it more and making it ubiquitous. > > > Cutting and pasting it somewhere works (subject to whatever licensing > it may have itself), as does having a list and a location for a copy, but > you still want it in the tree proper. > > There's a reason that lawyers copy documents into other documents rather > than doing late dynamic binding - you want to be sure that what you > reference is the *exact* text that is valid for this case. > > If you have a single master official copy and a link then you break all > that and you'd have to have everyones consensus and planning to change a > word of it. Ah so keep the original in place to let references to the original in whatever way those may exist to keep pointing but promote new usage to a copy and.. perhaps refer to the new copy in master, or just leave that in place as is? Luis -- 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/