[haiku-commits] Re: haiku: hrev47595 - src/add-ons/media/plugins/ffmpeg
- From: Rene Gollent <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 15:53:41 -0400
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Paweł Dziepak <pdziepak@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Not really. Sign-off is generally used for legal reasons [1], so that the
> submitter of a patch certifies that it can be safely included in the project
> [2] without violating any licences. Generally, the projects that use
> Signed-off-by require it to be added to all submitted patches and then the
> number of sign-offs and similar lines (e.g. Reviewed-by) grows as the patch
> is makes its way to the main repository.
>
While that's the case for the Linux kernel, that doesn't seem to be
universally agreed upon usage for others (as is also indicated in your
stackoverflow link). In any case, the usage pattern I described is
what's been done in our repository so far.
Regards,
Rene
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