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Re:I got robbed of my first kernel contribution by yencabulator on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @06:12PM (#37682120)
The purpose of DCO is to move the guilt of plagiarism etc from the Linux kernel project to the individual contributor who added the Signed-off-by line.

https://developercertificate.org/

> (a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I have the right to submit it under the open source license indicated in the file; or

etc

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Re:I got robbed of my first kernel contribution by shadowgovt on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @06:33PM (#37682334)
Indeed. What I'm saying is it might not work to remove that guilt if a bug is reported and a solution presented, and then instead of incorporating the solution presented the kernel team (without DCO in hand) fixes the bug using code that looks suspiciously inspired by the provided solution.

This is murky enough that it would have to be decided in the court of law, but it's not cut and dry enough that it would be immediately thrown out of that court of law.

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