On 2018-11-28 13:43:29, Eric Anholt wrote: > Jordan Justen <jordan.l.jus...@intel.com> writes: > > > This adds the "Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1" from the Linux > > kernel. It indicates that by using Signed-off-by you are certifying > > that your patch meets the DCO 1.1 guidelines. > > > > It also changes Signed-off-by from being optional to being required. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.jus...@intel.com> > > Cc: Matt Turner <matts...@gmail.com> > > What problem for our project is solved by signed-off-by? Do you think > that it has actually reduced the incidence of people submitting code > they don't have permission to submit in the projects where it's been > used? I know the behavior in the kernel is that people submit a patch, > it's missing s-o-b, so it gets bounced, then they maybe add s-o-b or > just give up. I don't think anyone stops and says "Wow, that's a good > question. Maybe I don't have permission to distribute this after all?"
Is it possible that some of the cases of "just give up" were "Oh I didn't think about that. I guess I actually don't have permission to contribute this under that license."? It seems like contributors have to spend a little brain power once to read and ponder the ~25 line document with regards to their contributions, and then just add a -s to their commit command line. -Jordan _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
