From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759644AbZFLWma (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:42:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755540AbZFLWmW (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:42:22 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.45.13]:63153 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754563AbZFLWmW convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:42:22 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to: cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-system-of-record; b=aSzdxSmiQJhGvosX0Zd0qsJFWk2J0ODPjE+O49fYMWxbITNEy71J8uUo8XnHtmEv6 W+GvIY1VAiARr0MTnUKbw== MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1cc472780906121538h5b70fa4dg891ff729fda1a566@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090612222229.GE17688@elf.ucw.cz> <1cc472780906121538h5b70fa4dg891ff729fda1a566@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:42:21 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Gerrit (was Re: HTC Dream aka. t-mobile g1 support) From: Brian Swetland To: Shawn Pearce Cc: Pavel Machek , Stefan Schmidt , Russell King - ARM Linux , kernel list , linux-arm-kernel , Greg KH , Chris Dibona , Daniel Berlin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-System-Of-Record: true Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Shawn Pearce wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 15:22, Pavel Machek 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. Brian