On 1/17/19 3:06 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 11:13:47AM +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> It happened to me almost dozen times now, so here's my rage :D
>
> I want to send a pull request to a Fedora project*, I clone it, fork it,
> push to the fork, open a PR and there it goes:
>
> ! This repo requires all commits to have the Signed-off-by whatnot in them !
Snake oil legalese?
Zbyszek
(maybe one day I can learn to hit the right button to reply all)
I hope it's not Snake oil or else the kernel is in trouble...
As others have mentioned, the DCO is basically an assertion that
you have the right to make a contribution to a project. There
are people in the kernel community who know the history better
and probably more authoritative sources but
https://www.do-not-panic.com/2014/02/developer-certificate-of-origin.html
is a nice blog post summarizing some history.