DCO: Was: Re: Contributing to gdb

[Simon Marchi]

On 2025-01-14 04:49, Luis Machado via Gdb wrote:
> While I agree having gdb be the sole bureaucratic entity not accepting DCO
> with the other GNU tools projects accepting it (in particular because we
> share code with binutils, so technically we'd have to make a joint decision),
> DCO's don't seem to come for free, as we need to track each and every one of
> those contributions so we can refer back to them when/if we ever decide to
> update/switch licenses or if a legal problem arises.
> 
> The contributions are not gdb's, they are still owned by their contributors,
> but those are granted the right to be distributed by gdb under the GPL, if I
> understand it correctly.
> 
> That is potentially a lot of work, and really needs to be taken seriously if
> we really want to do things by the book. Makes me wonder how we're supposed
> to track this.

My understanding is that the tracking is done using the "Signed-off-by"
git trailer.  I don't know of any project tracking contributions more
extensively than that.

Simon