Richard Cochran <richardcochran@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > The reason for the author's SOB is to make sure that he or she is > really authorized (like from the employer) to contribute the driver. I believe it is wise to stick to the definition of "Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1" from SubmittingPatches. Which most definitely allow you to sign off on any GPL licensed code, whether the original author(s) included a SOB tag or not: .. (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 .. Bjørn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html