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Blue Swirl wrote:
On 4/20/09, Anthony Liguori <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Blue Swirl wrote:
Hi,
I gathered a few common complaints about patch submission, hopefully
not too much affected by my consumption of small amounts of various
alcoholic substances.
Comments, objections?
+SP2.5: Exception: For extremely short and trivial patches (one-line
+fixes etc.), the description and "Signed-off-by:" lines may be
+omitted, in which case the subject must be appended with the
+submitter's name in parenthesis
Signed-off-by can never be omitted--even for one line fixes.
I disagree. Changes that are small enough do not create any
copyrightable material, thus they may come from any source.
It's not just an issue of copyright. It's also a statement that you are
allowed to be submitting patches to a given project. Before DCO, some
projects used to require forms from employers stating that contributions
were allowed because some employers have non-compete contracts that
would prevent an employee from working on a project.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
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