Commit af45f32d authored Sep 12, 2006 by Greg Kroah-Hartman Committed by Linus Torvalds Sep 13, 2006

[PATCH] We can not allow anonymous contributions to the kernel



The DCO does not mean anything if we allow anonymous contributors to the
kernel.  As this is an open source project, we need to do everything in the
open.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent 9bb25bf3

Documentation/SubmittingPatches

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		@@ -308,6 +308,8 @@ then you just add a line saying

		Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@developer.example.org>

		using your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.)

		Some people also put extra tags at the end. They'll just be ignored for
		now, but you can do this to mark internal company procedures or just
		point out some special detail about the sign-off.