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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Andreas Ericsson <exon@op5.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add configuration variable for sign-off to format-patch
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 03:23:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090407072327.GA5239@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49D9E040.40007@op5.se>

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 12:58:08PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> How about:
> "Some projects (notably the Linux kernel and git itself) put special
> meaning in a 'Signed-off-by' line while other's dont. Please refer
> to your project's documentation for appropriate behaviour."

I think that is fine, with some typo fixups:

  s/other's/others/
  s/dont/don't/

And of course being American, I would spell it behavior. :)

> Optionally with the following amendment:
>
> "In general, you should refrain from signing off on a patch containing
> material that you're not sure can be legally spread under the project's
> license."

I don't think that makes sense. That is what signing-off is about for
the kernel and for git, but I don't think there is any reason another
project might not want to use the convenient signoff options to mean
something totally unrelated (like we use Acked-by).

-Peff

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-07  7:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-31 18:50 [PATCH] Add configuration variable for sign-off to format-patch Heiko Voigt
2009-03-31 19:47 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-04-01 17:53   ` Heiko Voigt
2009-03-31 20:04 ` Jeff King
2009-03-31 20:43   ` Heiko Voigt
2009-04-01 10:26     ` Jeff King
2009-04-01 17:51       ` [PATCH v2] " Heiko Voigt
2009-04-01 17:55         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-04-06  8:14         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-06 10:58           ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-04-06 11:36             ` Matthieu Moy
2009-04-06 18:09               ` Heiko Voigt
2009-04-07  7:23             ` Jeff King [this message]

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