Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@×××××××.us>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Signing off patches
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 17:11:09
Message-Id: 20140116171104.GS2647@odin.tremily.us
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Signing off patches by Alexander Berntsen
1 On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 06:05:50PM +0100, Alexander Berntsen wrote:
2 > On 16/01/14 17:45, W. Trevor King wrote:
3 > > I love Signed-off-by, but in all projects where I've seen it used
4 > > it means the signer is agreeing to some form of a Developer's
5 > > Certificate of Origin [1]. Without such a DCO, I think the usual
6 > > commit author is sufficient.
7 >
8 > I agree. However, it might be prudent to introduce a DCO. After all,
9 > copyright is assigned to the Gentoo Foundation.
10
11 If you add a DCO (and I'd certainly think that would be prudent if you
12 require copyright assignment), then you probably don't need a separate
13 Assisted-by. Anyone with enough co-authorship to matter will be using
14 a Signed-off-by.
15
16 Cheers,
17 Trevor
18
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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Signing off patches Alexander Berntsen <alexander@××××××.net>