Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:42:21 -0700 | Subject | Re: Gerrit (was Re: HTC Dream aka. t-mobile g1 support) | From | Brian Swetland <> |
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On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Shawn Pearce<sop@google.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 15:22, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote: >> On Fri 2009-06-12 14:50:21, Brian Swetland wrote: >> > Gerrit is a git patch review system that we (Google/Android) use for >> >> Unfortunately, it seems quite unsuitable for kernel. >> >> Do I understand it right that to submit kernel patches I'd have to >> agree to "contributors agreement", and give up my copyright? No, >> sorry, I don't think I want to do that. > > No. The contributor agreement used by review.source.android.com is a stronger version of the Developers Certificate of Origin normally used by kernel > contributors. > For the actual agreement text see[1], but the basic principle is the same. > No assignment of copyright, only assignment of license for redistribution, > which is what the GPL asks anyway. It also contains a patent provision, > similar to what the Apache License contains, to protect the project leads > from submarine patent infringement by code contributed by a patent holder. > [1] https://review.source.android.com/static/cla_individual.html
When we first discussed the CLA, I raised this concern (that the mainline kernel folks would not be thrilled by another system in addition to Signed-off-by), and was informed that we should not have to require CLA acceptance for contributions to the kernel/... trees. I'm not sure if Gerrit is setup to handle this yet.
We will always happily accept kernel patches via email/mailinglist, per the standard linux kernel development model.
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