Kernel contributions from organisations and individual privacy

From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Kernel contributions from organisations and individual privacy
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:57:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150611175700.GF22639@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5579B9D3.9030208@mrbrklyn.com>

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 12:39:47PM -0400, Ruben Safir wrote:
> > The only thing you have to agree with when contributing Linux kernel
> > code is the DCO, which can be found in the file
> > Documentation/SubmittingPatches, or here online:
> > 	http://developercertificate.org/
> > 
> 
> I didn't know that and looking at it, that is pretty flimsy.

Not at all, in fact, it's very strong.  A number of other projects also
use this same document (SAMBA, Docker, etc.), so it is well known and
proven to work.

> It is a good thing that up until know this hasn't bit them in the ass
> so far.  I might be all that is possible though because a CLA, to be
> really blanket, would require one having to go back to every
> contribution to date.

That's only if you wanted to do something crazy like relicense the work.
And even then, a CLA doesn't help you out, see all of the projects that
have undertaken this task and what they have done to enable it.  A CLA
doesn't do much there.

greg k-h