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Re: Developer's Certificate of Origin



On Wednesday, November 27, 2024 4:48:30 AM MST Ulrich Müller wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 27 Nov 2024, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> > On Wednesday, November 27, 2024 2:48:51 AM MST Simon Josefsson wrote:
> >> I don't follow.  Do you believe the DCO is a license text?
> > 
> > Yes.  There is no question that the DCO is a license.  It says right
> > in the text it is a license.
> 
> So if someone wants to include any non-free file in a package, they can
> just claim in its header that it is a license, and it will be excepted
> from the DFSG? That seems like a strange concept.

I can’t imagine anyone making that claim, and no one has in this thread.

However, if a project includes their Contributor License Agreement in their 
source code (the DSO in this case), doing so does not pose any DFSG problems 
(and, indeed, is a good idea, because it strengthens the chain of custody of 
the open-source license presented by the project to the end users).

-- 
Soren Stoutner
soren@debian.org

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