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●[RFD] Explicitly documenting patch submission (domingo,
23 de maio de 2004 08:50:07 GMT+02, por Linus Torvalds,
na lista de e-mail do Núcleo Linux:
“Hola!
This is a request for discussion..
Some of you may have heard of this crazy company called SCO (aka
"Smoking Crack Organization") who seem to have a hard time believing that
open source works better than their five engineers do. They've apparently made
a couple of outlandish claims about where our source code comes from,
including claiming to own code that was clearly written by me over a
decade ago.”
…
“The plan is to make this very light-weight, and to fit in with how we
already pass patches around - just add the sign-off to the end of the
explanation part of the patch. That sign-off would be just a single line
at the end (possibly after _other_ peoples sign-offs), saying:
Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <
[email protected]>”
…
“Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.0”
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