From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add configuration variable for sign-off to format-patch Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 03:23:27 -0400 Message-ID: <20090407072327.GA5239@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <20090331185018.GD72569@macbook.lan> <20090331200457.GA23879@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20090331204338.GA88381@macbook.lan> <20090401102610.GC26181@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20090401175153.GA90421@macbook.lan> <7veiw69p26.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <49D9E040.40007@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Junio C Hamano , Heiko Voigt , git@vger.kernel.org To: Andreas Ericsson X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 07 09:25:12 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lr5gF-00071j-EX for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:25:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751800AbZDGHXk (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Apr 2009 03:23:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751323AbZDGHXk (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Apr 2009 03:23:40 -0400 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:45698 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750994AbZDGHXj (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Apr 2009 03:23:39 -0400 Received: (qmail 541 invoked by uid 107); 7 Apr 2009 07:23:29 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:23:29 -0400 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:23:27 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49D9E040.40007@op5.se> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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