On 2018-09-16 10:59, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>> On Sun, 16 Sep 2018, Michał Górny wrote: >> Since some developers were giving the sign-off 'in blanco' so far, >> I would like to emphasize that now it will actually mean agreeing to >> the document. Unless you have read the new policy and agreed with it, >> please don't do that. > > I wonder how we should treat those existing Signed-off-by lines in the > tree. > > We could either say that we ignore any such lines on commits before > 2018-09-16 00:00:00 UTC, because there was no policy in place. > > Or we could say that they certify the commit under the Linux DCO 1.1 > (https://developercertificate.org/), because in absence of an explicit > policy that's the only meaningful interpretation of a Signed-off-by > line. > > Presumably, the first alternative is cleaner. Especially, since there > are commits with a Signed-off-by line that don't comply with the > conditions of the Linux DCO.
+1 for ignoring "Signed-Off-By" line until 2018-09-16 00:00:00. -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5
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