[Harmony-Drafting] Harmony DCO

Richard Fontana rfontana at redhat.com
Sat Aug 6 14:14:40 UTC 2011


On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 03:11:09PM +0200, Allison Randal wrote:
> - We can just point people at the Linux Kernel DCO, but it was drafted for the
> contribution policy of the Linux Kernel. 

While that's true, if you look at the DCO -- the 'certification'
itself, that is -- it is not specific to the Linux kernel at all. It
could be used by any open source project. In fact, I have recommended
to a couple of projects that they use, or consider using, the DCO,
without modification. So it's already reusable, and in fact it may
have been the first (non-FLOSS-license) contribution policy document
not worded for any specific project (though I doubt that was a
conscious design of its drafters).

- RF



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