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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
To: Andreas Ericsson <exon@op5.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add configuration variable for sign-off to format-patch
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:36:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqvdpi5807.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49D9E040.40007@op5.se> (Andreas Ericsson's message of "Mon\, 06 Apr 2009 12\:58\:08 +0200")

Andreas Ericsson <exon@op5.com> writes:

> 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."
>
> 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."

To me, this is at least an improvement over refering to
SubmittingPatches (which is targeted to Git contributors) in the
documentation (targeted to Git users), yes.

Not sure whether these two sentences should come in the documentation
for the config option or the command-line switch.

-- 
Matthieu

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-06 11:41 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 [this message]
2009-04-06 18:09               ` Heiko Voigt
2009-04-07  7:23             ` Jeff King

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