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

[Rowland penny]

On 15/10/2020 20:14, Simo Sorce via samba-technical wrote:
> [Resending as originally sent from wrong address and bounced]
>
> On Thu, 2020-10-15 at 19:14 +0100, Rowland penny via samba-technical
> 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
>>>> =================================================================
>>>> =======
>>>> Become a Conservancy Supporter today:
>>>> https://sfconservancy.org/supporter
>> Hang on, what is wrong with calling it a 'DCO' ?
> The original license for DCO 1.0 did not permit it, this[1] is the only
> reference I can still find.
>
>        If you modify you must use a name or title distinguishable from
>        "Developer's Certificate of Origin" or "DCO" or any confusingly
>        similar name.
>
>
> The current DCO (1.1), in contrast, does not permit modifications at
> all.
>
>> With 'DCO' (Developer's Certificate of Origin), even I (a total
>> thicko) can understand what it means,
> Maybe you really do, but to me it never meant anything until explained
> anyway. The first time I saw the name I wondered why they want to know
> where *I* am from.
Well possibly, but then I have read the 'Linux Foundations' DCO
>
>>   I have no idea what 'Contributor Representation' means.
> That's why you read the text and figure it out, it is just a name and
> is as good as the original in terms of clarity IMO.
>
> HTH,
> Simo.
>
> [1]
> https://web.archive.org/web/20060524185355/http://www.osdlab.org/newsroom/press_releases/2004/2004_05_24_dco.htm

I will accept your non working link and raise you a working one:

https://developercertificate.org/

Yes it does say:

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license document, but changing it is not allowed.

So, if we use that, we *cannot* change its name.

Rowland