On Wed, 2016-03-16 at 12:15 +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > My only request is that the "Author:" git metadata header be matched by > the first Signed-off-by tag.
We use the Signed-off-by tag the same way as everyone else does, don't we? With reference to the "Developer's Certificate of Origin" as seen at http://developercertificate.org/? See item (b) therein: (b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source license and I have the right under that license to submit that work with modifications, This covers the case of a Signed-off-by: which doesn't come from the author, doesn't it? The 'Signed-off-by' is something that only that individual can create — it should never be 'assumed' and constructed by someone else. So if someone has written some code and committed it to an internal repository (without a signed-off-by), and has then left the company, it seems perfectly reasonable for them to still be listed as the *author* of the work when it's pushed upstream, but for their Signed-off-by to be absent. And for someone *else* in the company to provide a Signed-off-by: tag indicating that they have the right to submit it. -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre david.woodho...@intel.com Intel Corporation
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