From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2013 20:25:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/19] spell checking
Message-ID: <20130309202518.GD3908@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <CALeLG_kdYjFhZXWedTgr2zdzJfrGV6XmqT1qkMX9XpJgztnPcg@mail.gmail.com>

Paul Campbell wrote:

> Four of the eight original authors now have dead email addresses. As I
> found out when I started getting the mail bounces when I started
> sending these patches out. Would it be acceptable for those patches to
> leave the From line, add a Based-on-patch-by and then sign of myself?

It's always nice to get the original author's sign-off, but if you can
certify what's stated in the DCO1.1 (from
Documentation/SubmittingPatches) then just adding your sign-off is
fine.  Please still keep the original authorship in that case, and no
need to add a Based-on-patch-by line.

Thanks,
Jonathan