Christian Mauderer commented on a discussion: https://gitlab.rtems.org/rtems/rtos/rtems/-/work_items/5657#note_156649 >From my point of view, there is a difference. The author of a commit is generated automatically. Git doesn't allow a commit without an author. The "Signed-off-by" line has to be explicitly added. The help in git tells you the following: > -s, --signoff, --no-signoff > Add a Signed-off-by trailer by the committer at the > end of the commit log message. The meaning of a > signoff depends on the project to which you’re > committing. For example, it may certify that the > committer has the rights to submit the work under the > project’s license or agrees to some contributor > representation, such as a Developer Certificate of > Origin. (See https://developercertificate.org for the > one used by the Linux kernel and Git projects.) > Consult the documentation or leadership of the > project to which you’re contributing to understand > how the signoffs are used in that project. So you actively accept the rules. For most projects it's the Linux foundations https://developercertificate.org/. If a project tells you to add a "Signed-off-by" line, it more or less tells you: Read our minimal rules here and acknowledge that you accept them. So if I would submit a patch as "John Smith" instead of my real name, you at least have a statement from "John Smith" that he accepted the rules even if you haven't verified that "John Smith" is a real person. You don't have anyone to hold liable if John Smith did something mean. But it would be also a problem for me to claim any rights based on that wrong name. -- View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.rtems.org/rtems/rtos/rtems/-/work_items/5657#note_156649 You're receiving this email because of your account on gitlab.rtems.org. Unsubscribe from this thread: https://gitlab.rtems.org/-/sent_notifications/5-7ww1dom4fpc1tahlz1msd3i4c-1d/unsubscribe | Manage all notifications: https://gitlab.rtems.org/-/profile/notifications | Help: https://gitlab.rtems.org/help
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