From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcg...@do-not-panic.com> The idea is taken from Linus Torvald's subsurface project [0] README file. The Signed-off-by is widely used in public projects and we stand to gain to make its usage more prevalent. The meaning of the Signed-off-by is borrowed from the Linux kernel's.
[0] git://github.com/torvalds/subsurface.git Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcg...@do-not-panic.com> --- CONTRIBUTING | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING index 8f214b1..966366c 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING +++ b/CONTRIBUTING @@ -5,6 +5,36 @@ All original contributions to copyleft-next are dedicated to the public domain to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, pursuant to CC0. See CC0 for further details. +Please either send me signed-off patches or a pull request with +signed-off commits. If you don't sign off on them, I will not accept +them. This means adding a line that says "Signed-off-by: Name <email>" +at the end of each commit, indicating that you wrote the code and have +the right to pass it on as an open source patch. + +See: http://gerrit.googlecode.com/svn/documentation/2.0/user-signedoffby.html + +Also, please write good git commit messages. A good commit message +looks like this: + + Header line: explaining the commit in one line + + Body of commit message is a few lines of text, explaining things + in more detail, possibly giving some background about the issue + being fixed, etc etc. + + The body of the commit message can be several paragraphs, and + please do proper word-wrap and keep columns shorter than about + 74 characters or so. That way "git log" will show things + nicely even when it's indented. + + Reported-by: whoever-reported-it + Signed-off-by: Your Name <yourem...@yourhost.com> + +where that header line really should be meaningful, and really should be +just one line. That header line is what is shown by tools like gitk and +shortlog, and should summarize the change in one readable line of text, +independently of the longer explanation. + Contributions from individual free/libre/open source software project participants, regardless of their views on copyleft, and regardless of their opinions on existing licenses such as the GNU GPLv2 and its -- 1.7.10.rc1.22.gf5241 -- 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/
