Re: DCO: Was: Re: Contributing to gdb

Eli Zaretskii via Gdb
2025-01-13T17:33:33Z

> From: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
> Cc: Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com>, GDB Development <gdb@sourceware.org>,
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:14:41 +0000
>
> I think that Eli believes the concerns with FSF assignment are
> overblown, and given the information provided, I'm inclined to agree.
> But at this point, with other components accepting DCO, I'm not sure
> that's really relevant. Unless there's a super compelling reason why
> GDB should diverge ... I think we should fall into line with the other
> components.

I mostly fear that by accepting DCOs we will open ourselves to
contributions from people who are not authorized to contribute their
code (e.g., it was copied from somewhere, or their employment contract
makes all their code the property of their employer, or something of
that nature). DCO makes it much easier to submit code based on
incorrect understanding of what the DCO text says, so the probability
for honest mistakes is higher than with CA.