We're switching to a DCO for source code contributions (GitLab blog)

The GitLab open-source (and open-core) project hosting site has announced that it is moving away from its Contributor License Agreement (CLA) to a Developers Certificate of Origin (DCO), which is what is used by the Linux kernel, for example, to cover contributions made to its code base. "A Contributor License Agreement (CLA) is the industry standard for open source contributions to other projects, but it's unpopular with developers, who don't want to enter into legal terms and are put off by having to review a lengthy contract and potentially give up some of their rights. Contributors find the agreement unnecessarily restrictive, and it's deterring developers of open source projects from using GitLab. We were approached by Debian developers to consider dropping the CLA, and that's what we're doing." LWN looked at some of the background of this issue back in June.