mån 2024-11-25 klockan 08:56 +0100 skrev Ulrich Müller: > > > > > > 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
Thanks for the pointer! That DCO v1.1 is not identical either the old v1.0 or the v1.1 published on https://developercertificate.org/ - here is the wdiff between the two 1.1 versions: (c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified [-it.-] {+it; and+} (d) {+In the case of each of (a), (b), or (c),+} I understand and agree that this project and the contribution are public and that a record of the contribution (including all personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with this project or the open source [- license(s) involved.-] {+license indicated in the file.+} /Simon
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