Re: Who uses Signed-off-by and DCO?

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Jun 12, 2009, 11:05 UTC
Message-ID: <4A32366A.6090608@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <20090612084207.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>

Nanako Shiraishi wrote:

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> 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.

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