Heyho On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 3:50 AM, Eric Pruitt <eric.pru...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 06:25:29PM +0200, Silvan Jegen wrote: >> Signed-off-by: Silvan Jegen <s.je...@gmail.com> > > What's the point in signing off on patches where you're the sole author? > Seems like redundant clutter to me.
I do it to indicate that I agree with the licensing terms of the existing code and to make explicit that I want to let you use this code (that to my best knowledge is of my own devising, does not infringe any patents yaddayaddayadda...). That is what the Linux kernel people use this tag for[0]. It is probably not necessary (and ineffective without the "Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1" included in the project) but I want to be on the safe side. If you prefer me not to do it, I won't in the future. Cheers, Silvan [0] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/SubmittingPatches?id=refs/tags/v4.1-rc2#n407
