From 200aa1812bf3cc219ca0490102d8b577e4033c71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "W. Trevor King" Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 09:31:02 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] CONTRIBUTING: point to external docs (for non GPLv2= projects) If a project wants to use the DCO/s-o-b workflow, but can't because of license incompatibility, they can include this blurb pointing towards the external documentation. To avoid licensing issues with this CONTRIBUTING file itself, I'm releasing it under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal license (see the `license` branch for full text). If you use this in your project, you'll probably want to adjust the URL to point to somewhere more dependable. It's annoyingly long, but you should include the blob hash (or a higher level hash like the commit hash) in your URL to make it absolutely clear which version of the documentation you were using in your project at a particular time. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King --- CONTRIBUTING | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) create mode 100644 CONTRIBUTING diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING new file mode 100644 index 0000000..194038e --- /dev/null +++ b/CONTRIBUTING @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +This project tracks patch provenance and licensing using the Developer +Certificate of Origin and Signed-off-by tags initially developed by +the Linux kernel project. Because the documentation for this +procedure is licensed under the GPLv2, we have chosen not to include +it in our project directly. Instead, please see: + + http://git.tremily.us/?p=signed-off-by.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/SubmittingPatches;h=34055986ab836553896f091225448c448a4cc62c;hb=refs/heads/signed-off-by -- 2.26.2