[Live-demo] Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Alternative to CLA: Developer Certificate of Origin

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]

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Subject: 	[OSGeo-Discuss] Alternative to CLA: Developer Certificate of
Origin
Date: 	Sun, 05 Nov 2017 15:17:53 +0100
From: 	Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
To: 	discuss at lists.osgeo.org



Hi,

 

Some food for thought for our projects regarding how to deal with
contributions, triggered

by a recent reading:

https://lwn.net/Articles/738048/#Comments

 

Contributor License Agreement (CLA) tend to be replaced by a Developer
Certificate

of Origin (DCO) in a number of projects:

https://developercertificate.org/

 

DCO is the mechanism required by the Linux Kernel originally, and by
other projects

now, to accept contributions, as DCO requires less bureaucracy than a
CLA and is

seen more friendly by open source communities:

 

CLA tastes more like corporate requirement and can typically require an
employee to

see his boss, make him approve the CLA, etc...

 

An example how a project implemented DCO in their CONTRIBUTING.md :

https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

 

One thing that was no completely clear to me is how a

Signed-off-by: John Smith <jsmith at example.com>" in a commit message
means that

the contributor agrees to the the DCO terms. But reading the help of git
commit for the

-s option that is used to add the Signed-off-by, I see:

 

-s, --signoff

Add Signed-off-by line by the committer at the end of the commit log
message.

The meaning of a signoff depends on the project, but it typically
certifies that

committer has the rights to submit

this work under the same license and agrees to a Developer Certificate
of Origin

(see http://developercertificate.org/ for more information).

 

So this is typically a git-centric mechanism.

 

Even

 

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