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Tue, 14 Jan 2025 10:10:11 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <7ac6e62d-1969-41b9-be3f-a2f70344a3eb@simark.ca> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 10:10:11 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: DCO: Was: Re: Contributing to gdb To: Luis Machado , Andrew Burgess , Tom Tromey , Guinevere Larsen Cc: Andrew Pinski , GDB Development , Eli Zaretskii , Pedro Alves , Nick Clifton References: <86538dac-6c3a-4b9e-9de9-3906e645fa4d@redhat.com> <87y16vwbzl.fsf@tromey.com> <74c8b867-f5bb-48f7-9849-11d06e63a3d7@arm.com> <87tta2r5z2.fsf@redhat.com> <00ba936a-6aa9-4d1d-8b1a-b5459b696289@arm.com> Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <00ba936a-6aa9-4d1d-8b1a-b5459b696289@arm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: gdb@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.30 Precedence: list List-Id: Gdb mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , From: Simon Marchi via Gdb Reply-To: Simon Marchi Errors-To: gdb-bounces~public-inbox=simark.ca@sourceware.org Sender: "Gdb" On 2025-01-14 04:49, Luis Machado via Gdb wrote: > While I agree having gdb be the sole bureaucratic entity not accepting DCO > with the other GNU tools projects accepting it (in particular because we > share code with binutils, so technically we'd have to make a joint decision), > DCO's don't seem to come for free, as we need to track each and every one of > those contributions so we can refer back to them when/if we ever decide to > update/switch licenses or if a legal problem arises. > > The contributions are not gdb's, they are still owned by their contributors, > but those are granted the right to be distributed by gdb under the GPL, if I > understand it correctly. > > That is potentially a lot of work, and really needs to be taken seriously if > we really want to do things by the book. Makes me wonder how we're supposed > to track this. My understanding is that the tracking is done using the "Signed-off-by" git trailer. I don't know of any project tracking contributions more extensively than that. Simon