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On 2018-05-30 23:44, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>>>>>> On Wed, 30 May 2018, Greg KH wrote: |
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>> Please please please do not "fork" the DCO. It was specifically |
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>> designed so that any project can use it, as-is, with no changes |
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>> needed. |
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> We simply cannot. We have files in the Gentoo repository that are not |
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> under a free software license, and for these we need an extra clause. |
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> Otherwise we would have to specify in the policy that certain commits |
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> are excepted from the requirement of a Signed-off-by line, and IMHO |
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> that would be a much worse solution. |
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That is a good point. |
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Which files do not have a free software license in the tree? |
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Are these just some patches or files in the "files" folder of the |
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packages or is there something else? |
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Are we allowed to use the free github repository for non free files? |
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We could upload the non free files to a different space and exclude |
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these from the repository, like we do it for large patches already. |
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Best, |
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Jonas |
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