Re: Can we please stop enforcing Signed-off-by commits?

[Miro Hrončok]

On 17. 01. 19 12:59, Randy Barlow wrote:
>  On Thu, 2019-01-17 at 11:13 +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> > Why do Fedora upstreams enforce this?
>  
>  I enforce the DCO in Bodhi. I started doing it after attended a talk by
>  Richard Fontana where he suggested it as a way to be explicit about the
>  license of contributions (i.e., not just the license of the project).
>  My memory is now a bit hazy, but I think there was some discussion
>  about how many projects work under the assumption that the license of
>  contributions is equal to the license of the project (sometimes stated
>  as "license in, license out", but that most do not make this explicit.
>  The DCO explicitly states that the contribution itself is granted to
>  the project under the same license that the project uses. 
I'd be very interested to know how adding some random line to a commit message 
grants an explicit license according to something that is not even linked from 
the commit message :(

CCing legal.

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