>>>>> On Mon, 25 Nov 2024, Simon Josefsson wrote: > 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. It was released under CC-BY-SA-2.5 in 2005: | © 2005 Open Source Development Labs, Inc. | The Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1 is licensed under a | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License. | If you modify you must use a name or title distinguishable from | "Developer's Certificate of Origin" or "DCO" or any confusingly | similar name. https://web.archive.org/web/20060524185355/http://www.osdlab.org/newsroom/press_releases/2004/2004_05_24_dco.html
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