Re: [gpsd-dev] [PATCH 1/2] hacking: mention signing off on patches and why it's a good thing.

[Eric S. Raymond]

Fred Wright <address@hidden>:
> My patches so far have always been signed off by whomever made the
> "official" commit, leading me to believe that it was more of a code review
> signoff than a licensing signoff.  But I could have been wrong about that,
> and adding the above link is the first official statement I've seen.

We were doing things that way for a while, but weren't terribly consistent
about it and I let the practice drop.

I'm willing to go to a quit-claim signoff because that seems to be much more
generally used and understood these days.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>