Jonathan Corbet <cor...@lwn.net> writes: > What you agree to is the developers certificate of origin (DCO), which > says you have the right to contribute the code to the kernel. No > copyright assignment takes place. Trust me, I have thousands of lines > of code in the kernel, and the copyright remains mine.
The FSF permits something like this as well, in the form of a copyright disclaimer. The FSF prefers to get an assignment, but a disclaimer is also acceptable. The important point is the explicit signature. Ian
