Re: [RFD] Explicitly documenting patch submission

Ian Stirling
2004-05-23T15:38:38Z

Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 10:02:17AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 08:46, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>>>Hola!
>>>
>>>This is a request for discussion..
>>
>>Can we make this somewhat less cumbersome even by say, allowing
>>developers to file a gpg key and sign a certificate saying "all patches
>>that I sign with that key are hereby under this regime". I know you hate
>>it but the FSF copyright assignment stuff at least has such "do it once
>>for forever" mechanism making the pain optionally only once.
>
>
> I don't think that adding a single line to ever patch description is
> really "pain". Especially compared to the FSF proceedure :)
>
> Also, gpg signed patches are a pain to handle on the maintainer's side
> of things, speaking from personal experience. However our patch

Has anyone ever tried to forge the name on a patch, and get it included?