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[128.61.241.144]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 3f1490d57ef6-e64137a28ecsm1720060276.35.2025.03.18.16.53.57 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:53:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Ammar Askar To: workflows@vger.kernel.org Cc: corbet@lwn.net, Ammar Askar Subject: [PATCH] docs: Fix conflicting contributor identity info Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:53:31 -0400 Message-Id: <20250318235331.3566174-1-ammar@ammaraskar.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In commit d4563201f33a ("Documentation: simplify and clarify DCO contribution example language"), the patch submission documentation was updated to remove the note about pseudonyms and instead simplify it to allow "known identities". The process documentation still explicitly prohibits pseudonymous contributors. This patch changes the process documentation to line up with the submitting patches document. Signed-off-by: Ammar Askar --- I ran into this page when searching for "kernel pseudonymous" and saw that it conflicts with changes Linus made in the patch submission document. Figured it might be worth updating. Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst b/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst index c3d0270bbfb3..25ca49f7ae4d 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst @@ -251,12 +251,12 @@ there is no prospect of a migration to version 3 of the GPL in the foreseeable future. It is imperative that all code contributed to the kernel be legitimately -free software. For that reason, code from anonymous (or pseudonymous) -contributors will not be accepted. All contributors are required to "sign -off" on their code, stating that the code can be distributed with the -kernel under the GPL. Code which has not been licensed as free software by -its owner, or which risks creating copyright-related problems for the -kernel (such as code which derives from reverse-engineering efforts lacking +free software. For that reason, code from contributors without a known +identity or anonymous contributors will not be accepted. All contributors are +required to "sign off" on their code, stating that the code can be distributed +with the kernel under the GPL. Code which has not been licensed as free +software by its owner, or which risks creating copyright-related problems for +the kernel (such as code which derives from reverse-engineering efforts lacking proper safeguards) cannot be contributed. Questions about copyright-related issues are common on Linux development -- 2.25.1