linux-kernel - Re: Streamlining Developer's Certificate of Origin, Signed-off-by tag

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Message-ID: <CAB=NE6X9z5YEPD5avSkYd6Ayc90kHF4+b1Vjfw8cvZ3A0gwXOQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:13:40 -0800
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Streamlining Developer's Certificate of Origin, Signed-off-by tag

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> Not just a separate document but project / github / whatever given
>> that other projects are referring to it now, and we stand to gain more
>> in the community by streamlining it more and making it ubiquitous.
>
>
> Cutting and pasting it somewhere works (subject to whatever licensing
> it may have itself), as does having a list and a location for a copy, but
> you still want it in the tree proper.
>
> There's a reason that lawyers copy documents into other documents rather
> than doing late dynamic binding - you want to be sure that what you
> reference is the *exact* text that is valid for this case.
>
> If you have a single master official copy and a link then you break all
> that and you'd have to have everyones consensus and planning to change a
> word of it.

Ah so keep the original in place to let references to the original in
whatever way those may exist to keep pointing but promote new usage to
a copy and.. perhaps refer to the new copy in master, or just leave
that in place as is?

  Luis
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