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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Who uses Signed-off-by and DCO?
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:59:40 -0700
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Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:42:07AM +0900, 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?
>
> E2fsprogs uses the DCO convetion as well.

True; I do not know if it counts as "other than the Kernel project"
in the original question, though.