[License-discuss] FAQ entry on CLAs

Allison Randal allison at opensource.org
Tue Jan 20 20:20:39 UTC 2015


On 01/20/2015 12:09 PM, cowan at ccil.org wrote:
> 
> What does DCO mean in this context?

Developer Certificate of Origin, as used by the Linux Kernel. It's
essentially a way of being more explicit about an inbound=outbound
contribution policy, by having each developer "sign off" that they
acknowledge the policy with each commit. It's about half-way down the
page on:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches

Allison



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