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Re: Nobody is THE one making contribution

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 24, 2020, 22:40 UTC
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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
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> Randall S. Becker wrote:
>> On December 24, 2020 12:19 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> > 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.
>> 
>> Clause d is important to maintain compatibility with GRPD[1] rules
>> about maintaining identifying information. This clause is more than
>> about the contribution. It is about consent to maintain your name and
>> email on record indefinitely, as part of the contribution, in the git
>> repository, without the ability to rescind the permission at some
>> point in the future.
>
> I didn't mean I don't agree that clause (d) should be there.
>
> I mean if in a particular contribution I don't agree that a record of
> the contribution is maintained indefinitely with my name, then clause
> (d) is not met. And it is not actually my true contribution, but a
> bastardization of it made by somebody else.
>
> You shouldn't assign to my name changes I don't agree with in
> perpetuity.

The way I read our DCO, especially its part (b), is that it is very much designed to allow editing, tweaking and improving on others' patches with editor's sign-off while passing a patch around.

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