[libcamera-devel] [PATCH/RFC 05/11] licenses: Move developer's certificate of origin to Documentation/

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hi Kieran,

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 03:43:49PM +0000, Kieran Bingham wrote:
> On 13/02/2020 15:36, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > The developer's certificate of origin isn't a license, move it from
> > LICENSES/ to Documentation/.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
> > ---
> >  {LICENSES => Documentation}/developer-certificate-of-origin.txt | 0
> >  1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >  rename {LICENSES => Documentation}/developer-certificate-of-origin.txt (100%)
> > 
> > diff --git a/LICENSES/developer-certificate-of-origin.txt b/Documentation/developer-certificate-of-origin.txt
> > similarity index 100%
> > rename from LICENSES/developer-certificate-of-origin.txt
> > rename to Documentation/developer-certificate-of-origin.txt
> 
> Hrm, ok, This is fine in principle, but it leaves an orphaned single
> file under Documentation, while all other files there are part of an
> html generation.

The change was prompted by "reuse lint" complaining that the
developer-certificate-of-origin license wasn't used by any file.

> Feels like this dumps it as a single file currently ...
> 
> Of course the html generation could just link to the DCO site ...
> 
> Is there an 'official' RST/MD impelmentation of this file that can be
> directly tied into our Documentation rather than being a lone
> otherwise-unreferenced file in a directory?

Not that I know of, but it's copied in
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst,
so I think we could copy it in contributing.rst.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart