Re: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: allow non-real name contributions
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- Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
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- Jul 8, 2025, 07:10 UTC
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On Mon, 7 Jul 2025 at 22:42, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> > On Sun, Jul 06, 2025 at 04:30:09PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > > I.e., why are we sure that it is OK for us to loosen this requirement > (without jeopardizing the legal status of contributions). And I think > the answer is along the lines of "the kernel did it, and they checked > with lawyers, so we can piggy-back on that work". But it would be nice > if we could cite that source, and maybe even lift some of their > language. > > Looks like the kernel commit here: > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d4563201f33a022fc0353033d9dfeb1606a88330 > > cites CNCF here: > > https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/659fd32c86dc/dco-guidelines.md > > I don't know if there's any public discussion or statement from the > Linux Foundation or other legal folks on the kernel's wording.
The commit is "Acked-by: Michael Dolan <mdolan@linuxfoundation.org>", which seems to be a lawyer at LF, e.g., as per Ted's post elsewhere in this thread. So that could be seen as some kind of statement.
> So there > might not be anything better to cite. And possibly we could run it past > Conservancy's counsel. I'll leave that up to PLC folks to decide on.
Martin