Messages in this thread | | | From | "Luis R. Rodriguez" <> | Date | Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:59:40 -0800 | Subject | Streamlining Developer's Certificate of Origin, Signed-off-by tag |
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So it turns out everyone and their mother's attorneys love the Signed-off-by tag and its definition as explained on the Linux kernel under the Developer's Certificate of Origin. Its to the extent other projects have picked it up and started documenting their own documentation for submitting patches to embrace the same definition, some without knowing what they were doing, some knowingly and rightfully doing so. I think it'd be good to see more embracement of the tag but to help do this it occurs to me perhaps it'd be good to treat the 'Developer's Certificate of Origin' as a standalone document that we can reference independently, and then have the kernel itself refer to it. That is, provide a unified easy way to refer to the practice for requiring the SOB tag and what it means.
Thoughts?
Luis
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