On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 6:49 AM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. <phajdan...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 25/10/2016 01:03, Rich Freeman wrote: >> As long as you have their permission to change the copyright notice. >> You cannot currently commit anything with a different copyright notice >> to gentoo.git, and you cannot legally change it without permission. > > How should that permission be documented? > > Is a statement the original author consents sufficient? >
I suspect that the DCO is probably sufficient under the proposed new policy. If the Linux Foundation can stick code written by full-time employees of the likes of Oracle into their repository with nothing more than a Signed-off-by saying that whoever contributed it is sure it is fine, we should probably consider that this ought to be good enough for that. Reading the DCO clauses b/c are designed to cover code from 3rd parties. If you're asking about the current policy, I doubt we have anything so formal in writing (which was one of the reasons I started the draft of the new policy). I'd suggest working with the license team or the Trustees before bringing any code of questionable copyright status into the tree. -- Rich
