documentation: Add a clause about signing off
This adds a reference to the Developer Certificate of Origin (copied below)
to tell people that they have to sign their work and the consequences
this implies.
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Developer Certificate of Origin
Version 1.1
Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
660 York Street, Suite 102,
San Francisco, CA 94110 USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
have the right to submit it under the open source license
indicated in the file; or
(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
license and I have the right under that license to submit that
work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
in the file; or
(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
it.
(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
this project or the open source license(s) involved.
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
diff --git a/README b/README
index fe3f6ff..7895045 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -242,6 +242,9 @@
Patches for SLOF should be made against https://github.com/aik/SLOF,
the master branch and posted to slof@lists.ozlabs.org.
+The patches must be signed using "Signed-off-by" tag with a real name to
+confirm that you certify the Developer Certificate of Origin Version 1.1,
+see [3] for details.
Documentation
@@ -252,3 +255,6 @@
[2] PAPR Standard, Power.org(TM) Standard for Power Architecture(R) Platform
Requirements (Workstation, Server), Version 2.4, December 7, 2009
+
+[3] Developer Certificate of Origin Version 1.1
+ http://developercertificate.org/
