On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 10:54 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 06:49:25AM +0000, Ren, Cloud wrote: > > Luis has ever asked joe for adding as a Signed-off-by. [] > I'm curious, did Luis ask on list or off?
Off vger lists with some qca list or exploder added. > The Signed-off tag has some legal bindings (all other tags are for > credit/info only). It is that person saying that the changes they made > to a patch are theirs and are giving the right to distribute it. I believe I posted all patches I signed-off to vger lists. > The sign-off is a simple line at the end of the explanation for the > patch, which certifies that you wrote it or otherwise have the right to > pass it on as an open-source patch. > > Joe, If you actually modified part of the code in the patch, you do have > the right to add a signed-off-by tag. If you just made suggestions or > reviewed, then a 'Suggested-by' or 'Reviewed-by' tag would be more > appropriate. Yes, I sent signed-off patches to their original RFC submission (back last year?). To me, this single large patch is like a snapshot of a git tree and not all contributors to that git tree should be noted as signers of the entire thing. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
