From patchwork Thu Jan 7 23:38:09 2021 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Junio C Hamano X-Patchwork-Id: 12005415 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-15.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER, INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39DC4C433DB for ; Thu, 7 Jan 2021 23:38:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E154D2368A for ; Thu, 7 Jan 2021 23:38:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728500AbhAGXix (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jan 2021 18:38:53 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com ([64.147.108.70]:51067 "EHLO pb-smtp1.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727858AbhAGXix (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jan 2021 18:38:53 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91F7B8D64B; Thu, 7 Jan 2021 18:38:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=8ZkhAHwPRM1rZipqaLzJpsFzbM8=; b=VFEyeE m2ixitYEgk1G84qBWRP7FU00Bt3lc4fvs3NQieSiAJSVRWQcWhUBpF+JGcrsY5LE UUQsDZVZLvM9GcPaX2lSYM0tY9Aqw3Oo5INlfDAeByBpW8YAMzj5dGkcXMXYakHv RsZtR4H9Mieo4NKHuLQMob/5KsLJa5nheTF3w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:subject :references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=IMW98CEfXmBc29s/O1rmk4sbL4Q1HN1t 1T9C39A/zpr1FEpz8ShcaPFePmWSUx2dyzTIScZyjYXVHDYkvIvgUGE4gJug8KH0 VdLuL+6ksgLP8zuXlLC/Nw97a/Q1+DTpnM3oga7UMBqsjXQqtHX/VpTEFb0aaAuA Ya08UzWqKTo= Received: from pb-smtp1.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B2898D64A; Thu, 7 Jan 2021 18:38:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [35.196.173.25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 23F428D649; Thu, 7 Jan 2021 18:38:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v2] SubmittingPatches: tighten wording on "sign-off" procedure References: Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:38:09 -0800 In-Reply-To: (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Mon, 28 Dec 2020 02:39:54 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 66A2CADE-5141-11EB-B53D-D152C8D8090B-77302942!pb-smtp1.pobox.com Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org The text says "if you can certify DCO then you add a Signed-off-by trailer". But it does not say anything about people who cannot or do not want to certify. A natural reading may be that if you do not certify, you must not add the trailer, but it shouldn't hurt to be overly explicit. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index d12094bac5..0452db2e67 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ wrote the patch or have the right to pass it on under the same license as ours, by "signing off" your patch. Without sign-off, we cannot accept your patches. -If you can certify the below D-C-O: +If (and only if) you certify the below D-C-O: [[dco]] .Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1