From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add configuration variable for sign-off to format-patch Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:36:24 +0200 Message-ID: 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=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , Heiko Voigt , Jeff King , git@vger.kernel.org To: Andreas Ericsson X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 06 13:41:18 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 1LqnCQ-0004rj-RX for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:41:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755525AbZDFLjj (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Apr 2009 07:39:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755402AbZDFLji (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Apr 2009 07:39:38 -0400 Received: from harmonie.imag.fr ([147.171.130.40]:49324 "EHLO harmonie.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754821AbZDFLji (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Apr 2009 07:39:38 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by harmonie.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n36BaS5C027099; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 13:36:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.43.5]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1Lqn7o-0006qZ-6q; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:36:24 +0200 Received: from moy by bauges.imag.fr with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Lqn7o-0007By-4L; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:36:24 +0200 In-Reply-To: <49D9E040.40007@op5.se> (Andreas Ericsson's message of "Mon\, 06 Apr 2009 12\:58\:08 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (harmonie.imag.fr [147.171.130.40]); Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:36:28 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: moy@imag.fr Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Andreas Ericsson 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