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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:53:39 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH, RFC] Add file describing rules for submitting
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Blue Swirl wrote:
> On 4/20/09, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
>   
>> Blue Swirl wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I gathered a few common complaints about patch submission, hopefully
>>> not too much affected by my consumption of small amounts of various
>>> alcoholic substances.
>>>
>>> Comments, objections?
>>>  +SP2.5: Exception: For extremely short and trivial patches (one-line
>>> +fixes etc.), the description and "Signed-off-by:" lines may be
>>> +omitted, in which case the subject must be appended with the
>>> +submitter's name in parenthesis
>>>
>>>       
>>  Signed-off-by can never be omitted--even for one line fixes.
>>     
>
> I disagree. Changes that are small enough do not create any
> copyrightable material, thus they may come from any source.
>   

It's not just an issue of copyright.  It's also a statement that you are 
allowed to be submitting patches to a given project.  Before DCO, some 
projects used to require forms from employers stating that contributions 
were allowed because some employers have non-compete contracts that 
would prevent an employee from working on a project.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori