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From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>,
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Subject: Re: Streamlining Developer's Certificate of Origin, Signed-off-by tag
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:10:43AM +0000, 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.
>=20
> 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.

I'm transitioning a project to the DCO-1.1 and trying to get its
licensing straightened out.  The DCO-1.0 [1] and DCO-1.1 [2] commits
were both by Linus, but lacked SOB lines in the commit.  The initial
proposal was also by Linus [3] (and this initial DCO version is what
was committed in [1]).  However, the OSDL (where Linus was working at
the time) seems to claim copyright for itself and claims
CC-BY-SA-2.5-generic [4].  Strangely, the DCO-1.1 text listed on the
archived OSDL page does not match the text of the DCO-1.1 text in the
kernel tree (the differences look minor to me, but I'm not a laywer).

So.  What license is the DCO distributed under and who holds
copyright?

Cheers,
Trevor

[1]: From: Linus Torvalds
     Subject: Start documenting the sign-off procedure in SubmittingPatches
     Date: 2004-06-01 19:13:52 GMT
     Gmane: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.commits.head/33254

     ChangeSet 1.1726.1.148, 2004/06/01 12:13:52-07:00, torvalds=E2=80=A6

[2]: commit cbd83da82b15292337ff2b71e619c9a3a95f6d80
     Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
     Date:   Mon Jun 13 17:51:55 2005 -0700

       Update DCO ("signoff") rules to 1.1

[3]: From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds <at> osdl.org>
     Subject: [RFD] Explicitly documenting patch submission
     Date: 2004-05-23 06:46:29 GMT
     Gmane: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/205867

[4]: http://web.archive.org/web/20070306195036/http://osdlab.org/newsroom/p=
ress_releases/2004/2004_05_24_dco.html

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