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

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Thu Oct 15 22:05:13 UTC 2020


On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 09:07:26PM +0100, Rowland penny via samba-technical wrote:
> On 15/10/2020 20:55, Jeremy Allison via samba-technical wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 03:45:22PM -0400, Simo Sorce via samba-technical wrote:
> > > > Personally I think we should just add the CC-By-SA
> > > > attribution and be done with it.
> > > I'll let you argue with our counsel on that :-)
> > Fair enough - we should always do "What The Lawyers Say" (tm) :-).
> > 
> > I don't want to change the text though, just the name
> > if we have to.
> > 
> > How about:
> > 
> > Samba Developer's Declaration of Origin
> > 
> > "Declaration of Origin" is IMHO more descriptive
> > of what the person is doing, as they're just
> > providing a declaration here.
> > 
> > Thoughts ?
> > 
> If we must change, then that is as good as anything, but how about dropping
> 'of Origin' from the end ? This will stop Simo from wondering about *I* ;-)
> and it says what it is, A developers declaration.

That a great idea I think !

Samba Developer's Declaration (SDD).

is short and very different from DCO.



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