Gentoo Archives: gentoo-project

From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
Cc: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Date-of-birth in developer applications
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 11:26:50
Message-Id: 843fb2da-3c2b-cf68-c064-e6d47117388e@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Date-of-birth in developer applications by Rich Freeman
1 On 06/20/2018 01:23 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 7:14 AM Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o> wrote:
3 >>
4 >> Right, I wasn't precise enough.. the DCO alone isn't sufficient, and an
5 >> agreement that is co-signed by parent where it grants a power of
6 >> attorney of sorts for the kid to assert the DCO... But the details on
7 >> that would have to be ironed out :)
8 >>
9 >
10 > A power of attorney assigning authority to somebody who isn't of legal
11 > age? While I haven't done a comprehensive analysis, I'd be utterly
12 > shocked if that is legally allowed in any country sophisticated enough
13 > to have a concept of a power of attorney.
14 >
15
16 The initial agreement would be the legally binding part, the sign-off-by
17 can be seen as only asserting the points of the first DCO contribution,
18 this is also why you see other projects requiring developers to send in
19 the first DCO in OpenPGP signed format before further commits are having
20 regular signed off by.
21
22 --
23 Kristian Fiskerstrand
24 OpenPGP keyblock reachable at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net
25 fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature