Oct 28, 2026, 12:17 AM@jeremiah_ @mcc I've never heard of Contributors Covenant. HardenedBSD-specific code uses either the 2BSDL or the 3BSDL depending on the specific code.
- Oct 28, 2026, 12:17 AM
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Oct 28, 2026, 12:32 AM@lattera @jeremiah_ "Contributors Covenant" is a code of conduct, and I'm not sure if it's relevant. Do you have a DCO?
- Oct 28, 2026, 12:33 AM
@mcc @jeremiah_ I'm unsure what a DCO is, either. Focus has been on hacking on code.
- Oct 28, 2026, 12:34 AM
@lattera @jeremiah_ A DCO is an agreement some projects make contributors agree to where they simply affirm that they are the author of the code and have permission to use it. As opposed to it being stolen from IBM on an usb thumbdrive or something.
- Oct 28, 2026, 12:39 AM
@mcc @jeremiah_ Ah. We're still such small fry that we haven't had to worry about any of that.
Oct 28, 2026, 3:16 AM@lattera @mcc You mentioned you a concern about copyright and potentially other legal issues, especially as related to LLMs used in coding. This is why I thought that things like the CC and DCO might help, they can help secure provenance and reduce your risk from bad actors. They don’t help much if you’re referring to the copyright theft that may occur when training a model, but many FOSS licenses explicitly permit that kind of use.