[PATCH] Documentation: Rename Samba's DCO to Samba Contributor Representation

[Rowland penny]

On 15/10/2020 19:36, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 07:14:07PM +0100, Rowland penny wrote:
>> On 15/10/2020 19:05, Jeremy Allison via samba-technical wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 10:49:26AM -0700, Bradley M. Kuhn via samba-technical wrote:
>>>> Samba Developers,
>>>>
>>>> As you know, it's rare that Conservancy offers specific patches upstream to
>>>> our projects, but I've submitted a merge request here:
>>>>           https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba/-/merge_requests/1609
>>>> and I've also attached the patch here.
>>>>
>>>> As many of you may know, Jeremy Allison originally requested that the
>>>> Samba's Contributor Representation be named DCO as a tribute to Linux and
>>>> its DCO.
>>>>
>>>> But, for a variety of reasons, I (with this patch) recommend to change the
>>>> name.  Also included is some cleanup work regarding the copyright and
>>>> license on the DCO text itself.
>>> Sorry Bradley,
>>>
>>> I guess I screwed up in calling our Samba contributor
>>> agreement a "DCO" as that's what Linux uses, but ours
>>> is different from theirs.
>>>
>>> In my defense I just thought that's what such things
>>> were supposed to be called.
>>>
>>> Plus I didn't notice the original text was copyrighted
>>> and under a CC-By-SA license, so we should certainly
>>> fix that.
>>>
>>> Sorry :-(.
>>>
>>> RB+ from me.
>>>
>>> Jeremy.
>>>
>>>>   From 2f011583294626e9919db7d8ddc7961a2f177f4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>>> From: "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn at sfconservancy.org>
>>>> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 07:52:21 -0700
>>>> Subject: [PATCH] Rename Samba's DCO to Samba Contributor Representation
>>>>
>>>> In an effort to reduce perceived confusion about the quite necessary
>>>> differences between the Samba DCO and the Linux DCO, and as a favor
>>>> to the Linux community, rename the Samba DCO to the Samba Contributor
>>>> Representation.
>>>>
>>>> Additionally, note that the text is copyrighted and add notice for
>>>> compliance with the text's license, CC-By-SA.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn at sfconservancy.org>
>>>> ---
>>>>    README.contributing | 13 +++++++++++--
>>>>    1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/README.contributing b/README.contributing
>>>> index 2a44e37f9e8..c4a0c7f4bc9 100644
>>>> --- a/README.contributing
>>>> +++ b/README.contributing
>>>> @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ your employer, simply email a copy of the following text
>>>>    from your corporate email address to contributing at samba.org
>>>>    ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> -Samba Developer's Certificate of Origin. Version 1.0
>>>> +Samba Contributor Representation, Version 1.0
>>>>    By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
>>>> @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ above, add a line that states:
>>>>    Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random at developer.example.org>
>>>>    using your real name and the email address you sent the original email
>>>> -you used to send the Samba Developer's Certificate of Origin to us
>>>> +you used to send the Samba Contributor Representation to us
>>>>    (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.)
>>>>    That's it ! Such code can then quite happily contain changes that have
>>>> @@ -113,3 +113,12 @@ Have fun and happy Samba hacking !
>>>>    The Samba Team.
>>>> +
>>>> +The "Samba Contributor Representation, Version 1.0" is:
>>>> +  (C) 2013 Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc.
>>>> +  (C) 2005 Open Source Development Labs, Inc.
>>>> +
>>>> +licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License as found
>>>> +at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode and based on
>>>> +"Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1" as found at
>>>> +http://web.archive.org/web/20070306195036/http://osdlab.org/newsroom/press_releases/2004/2004_05_24_dco.html
>>>> -- 
>>>> 2.26.1
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Bradley M. Kuhn - he/him
>>>> Policy Fellow & Hacker-in-Residence at Software Freedom Conservancy
>>>> ========================================================================
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>> Hang on, what is wrong with calling it a 'DCO' ?
>>
>> With 'DCO' (Developer's Certificate of Origin), even I (a total thicko) can
>> understand what it means, I have no idea what 'Contributor Representation'
>> means.
> Well it's representing that you have the right to contribute,
> so it seemed OK to me.
Also myself and just about everybody else, if you be believe what Google 
returns from a search on 'Developer's Certificate of Origin'
>
> I wouldn't get too hung up about what we call it.
I'm not
>   The
> issue is the Linux lot want to keep their name separate,
> so we should really respect their wishes.
They are going to be busy :-D
>
> Let's discuss on the list if we want to change it,
> and if so what we'd call it.
>
> Rowland, do you have any good ideas on a new name ?
Not off the top of my head, but the suggested alternative stinks in my 
view, it is meaningless
>
> Bradley, do you have any alternative names you considered ?
>
> Jeremy.

Rowland