Signed-off-by: Bryce Harrington <[email protected]> --- doc/Contributing | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/Contributing b/doc/Contributing index fe90614..65565dc 100644 --- a/doc/Contributing +++ b/doc/Contributing @@ -30,6 +30,15 @@ cope with the way git log presents them. See [2] for a recommend reading on writing commit messages. +Your patches should also include a Signed-off-by line with your name and +email address. If you're not the patch's original author, you should +also gather S-o-b's by them (and/or whomever gave the patch to you.) The +significance of this is that it certifies that you created the patch, +that it was created under an appropriate open source license, or +provided to you under those terms. This lets us indicate a chain of +responsibility for the copyright status of the code. + +We won't reject patches that lack S-o-b, but it is strongly recommended. == Tracking patches and following up == -- 1.9.1 _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
