Luis R. Rodriguez [1] has been trying to get information about the
licensing of the Linux kernel's DCO [2] for a while now [3,4], and it
looks like the Linux Foundation just made their view explicit [5,6,7].
This clarifies the copyright and licensing of Linus' two patches:
*
857a183 Update DCO ("signoff") rules to 1.1
*
991bd2e Start documenting the sign-off procedure in SubmittingPatches
From the whois information, developercertificate.org is pretty recent:
$ whois developercertificate.org
Domain Name: DEVELOPERCERTIFICATE.ORG
Domain ID:
D170689185-LROR
Creation Date: 2014-01-15T02:54:55Z
Updated Date: 2014-01-17T22:11:12Z
...
Name Server: NS2.LINUX-FOUNDATION.ORG
Name Server: NS1.LINUX-FOUNDATION.ORG
Now that this has an upstream source and it's own license (verbatim
copies only), I'm putting this file in its own branch. Downloaded
just now:
$ wget -S -O developer-certificate-of-origin http://developercertificate.org/
--2014-01-24 15:46:21-- http://developercertificate.org/
Resolving developercertificate.org... 140.211.169.4
Connecting to developercertificate.org|140.211.169.4|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 23:46:58 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Connection: keep-alive
Last-Modified: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 23:02:25 GMT
ETag: "5c188d-6c5-
4f0328910e8f0"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 1733
Length: 1733 (1.7K) [text/html]
Saving to: ‘developer-certificate-of-origin’
2014-01-24 15:46:21 (112 MB/s) - ‘developer-certificate-of-origin’ saved [1733/1733]
After which I stripped out the HTML, leaving just the DCO text.
[1]: http://www.do-not-panic.com/
[2]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
[3]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/
1397613
[4]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/
1492612
[5]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/118696
[6]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/
1635433
[7]: http://developercertificate.org/
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
--- /dev/null
+Developer Certificate of Origin
+Version 1.1
+
+Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
+660 York Street, Suite 102,
+San Francisco, CA 94110 USA
+
+Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
+license document, but changing it is not allowed.
+
+Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
+
+By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
+
+(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
+ have the right to submit it under the open source license
+ indicated in the file; or
+
+(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
+ of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
+ license and I have the right under that license to submit that
+ work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
+ by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
+ permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
+ in the file; or
+
+(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
+ person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
+ it.
+
+(d) 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.