On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 11:48:22AM +1100, David Gibson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 08:46:52AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > > Hello David, > > > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 12:54:19PM +1100, David Gibson wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 09:08:59AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > > > > fdtoverlay doesn't have a -t option, so explaining the type formats and > > > > modifier prefixes doesn't make much sense. > > > > --- > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I was unsure if I'm supposed to add a signed-off-by line. It's not > > > > formalized in the git repo, so I assume it won't have any juristical > > > > semantic anyhow and I didn't add it. > > > > > > It's true we've never formalized this, but I do generally prefer S-o-b > > > lines to be present. > > > > > > The patch LGTM, so if you could resent with the signoff I'll apply. > > > > Then I wonder about the semantic of the Signed-off-by for dtc. Do you > > believe it has any juristical effect if you don't give it an explicit > > meaning for the project? INAL, but it feels wrong to me to insist on a > > formalism but not having formalized its meaning. > > Well, I'm not really sure what you mean by "juristical effect". For kernel patches (and quite a few other projects that adopted the "Developer's Certificate of Origin", I'd expect that as a maintainer or user of the project you can assume that there are no license problems with the contribution. > AFAIK the S-o-b lines never have any legal force, as such - they're > just a form of documentation that helps to locate the right people to > contact if legal questions show up in future. Even without S-o-b I'm listed in the Author line, isn't that enough for providing a point of contact? Best regards Uwe
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