From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: Who uses Signed-off-by and DCO? Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:05:14 +0200 Message-ID: <4A32366A.6090608@op5.se> References: <20090612084207.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Nanako Shiraishi X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 12 13:05:33 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MF4Ze-0006sl-LJ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:05:31 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757383AbZFLLFS (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:05:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758922AbZFLLFR (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:05:17 -0400 Received: from na3sys009aog109.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.201]:41830 "HELO na3sys009aog109.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755513AbZFLLFP (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:05:15 -0400 Received: from source ([72.14.220.157]) by na3sys009aob109.postini.com ([74.125.148.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKSjI2bdLIyA702M3QPLIRenEHw5k28AiI@postini.com; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:05:18 PDT Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 13so725355fge.5 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:05:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.86.53.8 with SMTP id b8mr3594875fga.32.1244804716422; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:05:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clix.int.op5.se ([212.112.163.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e20sm2041954fga.25.2009.06.12.04.05.15 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:05:15 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) In-Reply-To: <20090612084207.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Nanako Shiraishi wrote: > git provides options and configuration variables to easily handle the > Signed-off-by tag line. It is used to certify that the sender > certifies the patch with the Developer's Certificate of Origin. > > I have read SubmittingPatches document and understand this convention > is used by the Linux Kernel Project. > > I was giving a git introduction to students in my lab, and this > question came up from one of them. How widely is this convention > used? Are there projects other than the Linux Kernel and git itself? > We use it for our own opensource projects, though I must admit we stole the idea from git.git. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace.