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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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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