From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nivedita Singhvi Subject: Re: RE: signed-off-by Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:30:06 -0800 Message-ID: <43A27B0E.4000102@comcast.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Ian Pratt Cc: James Harper , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Ian Pratt wrote: > > >>>Thanks for the patch, but please can we have a signed-off-by: line >>> >> >>Just for the record, what is the significance of a >>'signed-off-by'? Is it something that hg generates or >>something that you just manually type into the email when you >>submit a patch? I was just throwing up a page on submitting patches to the Xen project: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/SubmittingXenPatches?action=show I'd appreciate it if the Xen maintainers could take a look and correct if needed. It has a link to the site referred below that explains what the Developer's Certificate of Origin is. thanks, Nivedita > > The signed-off-by: line should be added by hand and is used to track the > provenance of patches. Please see > http://www.osdl.org/newsroom/press_releases/2004/2004_05_24_dco.html > > Unless a patch is utterly trivial we need it signed off before we can > accept it. > > Thanks, > Ian > > Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1 > ===================================== > > By making a contribution to this project, I certify that: > > (a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I have > the right to submit it under the open source license indicated in the > file; or > > (b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best of my > knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source license and I > have the right under that license to submit that work with > modifications, whether created in whole or in part by me, under the same > open source license (unless I am permitted to submit under a different > license), as indicated in the file; or > > (c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other person > who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified it; and > > (d) In the case of each of (a), (b), or (c), I understand and agree that > this project and the contribution are public and that a record of the > contribution (including all personal information I submit with it, > including my sign-off) is maintained indefinitely and may be > redistributed consistent with this project or the open source license > indicated in the file. > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel >