From: Andreas Ericsson Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:05:14 GMT Subject: Re: Who uses Signed-off-by and DCO? Message-ID: <4A32366A.6090608@op5.se> In-Reply-To: <20090612084207.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> 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? > We use it for our own opensource projects, though I must admit we stole the idea from git.git. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace.