RE: Nobody is THE one making contribution

> To: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>; Felipe Contreras
> <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
> Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>; Pratyush Yadav
> <me@yadavpratyush.com>; David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>; Seth House
> <seth@eseth.com>; Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>; Christian Couder
> <christian.couder@gmail.com>; git@sfconservancy.org
> Subject: Re: Nobody is THE one making contribution
> 
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 23 2020, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> >
> > > When I express my dissenting opinion I'm not saying nobody should
> > > write a patch on top of mine. Of course they can. Anybody can take
> > > my code and do whatever they want with it (as long as they don't
> > > violate the license of the project).
> > >
> > > What they cannot do is add my Signed-off-by line to code I don't
> > > agree with.
> >
> > I don't think that's what Signed-off-by means, per SubmittingPatches:
> >
> >     To improve tracking of who did what, we ask you to certify that you
> >     wrote the patch or have the right to pass it on under the same
> >     license as ours, by "signing off" your patch[...under the DCO:
> >     https://developercertificate.org/]
> 
> Yes, but the DCO requires (d):
> 
>   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.
> 
> We can narrow down the part I'm talking about:
> 
>   d. I *agree* that a record of the contribution is maintained
>      indefinitely.
> 
> I don't agree with that.