On 1/17/19 12:59 PM, Randy Barlow wrote: > On Thu, 2019-01-17 at 11:13 +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote: >> Why do Fedora upstreams enforce this? > > I enforce the DCO in Bodhi. I started doing it after attended a talk by > Richard Fontana where he suggested it as a way to be explicit about the > license of contributions (i.e., not just the license of the project). > My memory is now a bit hazy, but I think there was some discussion > about how many projects work under the assumption that the license of > contributions is equal to the license of the project (sometimes stated > as "license in, license out", but that most do not make this explicit. > The DCO explicitly states that the contribution itself is granted to > the project under the same license that the project uses.
Just adding a link to the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3OxXSirek4 -- Signed Sheogorath
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