Hi. The DCO v1.1 published on https://developercertificate.org/ says:
Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors. Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. The license appears non-free to me, does anyone disagree? The text is widely included in Debian main packages. Is there any policy exception to allow this? The DCO is not a license text, which seems to be the only exception I know of, so having the text appear under a non-modifiable license doesn't seem appropriate for main. Does anyone know a way to talk to the Linux Foundation and ask them to release the text into the public domain? Or at least release it under some license that allows modifications. Thoughts? Some examples: https://sources.debian.org/src/git/1:2.45.2-1.2/Documentation/SubmittingPatches/?hl=294#L294 https://sources.debian.org/src/libseccomp/2.5.5-1/CONTRIBUTING.md/#L69 https://sources.debian.org/src/qemu/1:9.1.1+ds-5/roms/skiboot/CONTRIBUTING.md/?hl=50#L50 https://sources.debian.org/src/qtwebengine-opensource-src/5.15.17%2Bdfsg-5/src/3rdparty/chromium/third_party/weston/src/DCO-1.1.txt/ https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=Developer%27s+Certificate+of+Origin+1.1 https://sources.debian.org/src/e2fsprogs/1.47.1-1/SUBMITTING-PATCHES/?hl=10#L10 /Simon
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