On 2018-05-30 23:44, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 30 May 2018, Greg KH wrote:
> 
>> Please please please do not "fork" the DCO.  It was specifically
>> designed so that any project can use it, as-is, with no changes
>> needed.
> 
> We simply cannot. We have files in the Gentoo repository that are not
> under a free software license, and for these we need an extra clause.
> Otherwise we would have to specify in the policy that certain commits
> are excepted from the requirement of a Signed-off-by line, and IMHO
> that would be a much worse solution.

That is a good point.
Which files do not have a free software license in the tree?
Are these just some patches or files in the "files" folder of the
packages or is there something else?

Are we allowed to use the free github repository for non free files?

We could upload the non free files to a different space and exclude
these from the repository, like we do it for large patches already.

-- 
Best,
Jonas