[openib-general] Signed-off-by: lines

[Matt Leininger]

On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 10:16 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
> By the way, for our initial submission upstream, I am planning on
> submitting all the patches with my own
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland at topspin.com>
> 
> line, of course preserving any other Signed-off-by: lines that already
> exist.  However, for the future, it would be a good idea to make sure
> that all patches come with a properly formatted Signed-off-by: line(s)
> and preserve all such lines in the svn commit messages.
> 
> (Read Documentation/SubmittingPatches in the kernel tree for full details)
> 
   I added the "signed-off by" requirement to the OpenIB FAQ.   We
probably need to have an 'SVN acceptable use policy' that covers the
licensing and "signed-off by" requirements.  I'll put something together
and put it up on openib.org for review.

	- Matt