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Linus Adopts Enhanced Tracking Process

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the track-this dept.

millette writes ""Under the enhanced kernel submission process, contributions to the Linux kernel may only be made by individuals who acknowledge their right to make the contribution under an appropriate open source license. The acknowledgement, called the DCO, tracks contributions and contributors. The DCO ensures that appropriate attribution is given to developers of original contributions and derivative works, as well to those contributors who receive submissions and pass them, unchanged, up the kernel tree. All contributors are called upon to "sign off" on a submission before it may be considered for inclusion in the kernel." From the press release. Also seen in the New York Times"

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  1. Oh boy..... by wpiman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Software methodology comes to open source.... Mind as well can the project now.....

  2. Great idea by l0wland · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hmm, did the toothfairy whisper this in his ear last night?

    --

    "Honey, I feel a certain distance between us..." "Really? A 31ms ping ain't that bad..."
  3. DCO? by havaloc · · Score: 5, Funny

    The name is kind of ironic, yes? You say DCO, I say SCO, let's call the whole thing off.

    1. Re:DCO? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      The name is kind of ironic, yes? You say DCO, I say SCO, let's call the whole thing off.

      Maybe it's short for DeSCO :-)

    2. Re:DCO? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Should've been the

      Source Code Origin Simple and Understandable eXplanation!

      Then again, didn't Apple's developers get sued over something like that...

  4. Horay! by 91degrees · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now all I need to do, is get hold of some code, claim it's mine, and I'm now officially the owner!

    Now, what is this "Linux" thing? Does it run under Windows 98, or will I need to upgrade to XP?

  5. Enhanced tracking process? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny
    Great. Just what we need. A way to track a specific category of spam.

    Talk about feature creep...

  6. When do we see such a thing on slashdot ? by heytal · · Score: 3, Funny

    Slashdot Comment Submitter's Certificate of Origin 1.0

    By submitting a comment to this slashdot story, I certify that:

    (a) The comment was created in whole or in part by me and I have the right to submit it under the copyright laws; or

    (b) The comment is based upon a previous comment from a dupe story, and to the best of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate copyright law and I have the right to submit that comment with modifications, whether created in whole or in part by me; or

    (c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified it.

  7. 5 years in the future by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    LINUS: Hello, Alan. What's happening? Um... yeah. We need to talk about your DCO reports. We have sort of a problem here. Yeah. You apparently didn't put one of the new coversheets on your DCO reports.

    ALAN: Yeah, the coversheet. I know, Andrea talked to me about it

    LINUS: Yeah. Uh, did you get that memo?

    ALAN: Yeah, I got the memo, and I understand the policy. The problem is, I just forgot the time. I've already taken care of it so it's not a problem anymore

    LINUS: Yeah. It's just that we're putting new coversheets on all the DCO reports before they go out now. So I'd really appreciate it if you could just do that. Right. Remember to do that from now on. That'd be great.