Signed-off-by

Simo idra at samba.org
Wed May 22 05:52:35 MDT 2013


On 05/22/2013 01:11 AM, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 21:51 -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
>>> This build failure is preventing a number of build farm hosts from
>>> building, and in turn is making it harder to do config.h difference
>>> comparisons for bug 8969.
>>>
>>> Please review/push.
>> It looks OK. However, there is no signed-off-by line.
> https://www.samba.org/samba/devel/copyright-policy.html describes the
> meaning of Signed-off-by for Samba, but as I own my copyright personally
> and so have not mailed in that statement (including LGPL permission), it
> does not apply to me.
>
> In consideration of the above, I choose not to add this line to avoid
> any further confusion as to the licence or circumstances under which I
> provide my code.

Andrew, you keep repeating this but it makes no sense.

Signed-off-by means: *I fundamentally contributed in making this patch 
and I am signing it to affirm that*.
It doesn't say anything about who owns the copyright.

Please add signed-off-by lines like everybody else does.

Simo.



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