Bottomley: A modest proposal on the DCO

James Bottomley is tryingto make life easier for projects that want to accept contributionsusing the developer certificateof origin as the contribution agreement, but which are concerned aboutpatent grants. "The lever that will help to make this move is asimple pledge, which can be published on a corporate website, that allowscorporations expecting to make legitimate contributions to patent bindinglicences under the DCO to do so properly without needing any additionalContributor Licence Agreements. Essentially it would be an explicitstatement that when their developers submit code to a project under the DCOusing a corporate signoff, they're acting as agents for the necessarypatent and copyright grants, meaning you can always trust a DCO signofffrom that corporation."