Junio C Hamano wrote: > The text says "if you can certify DCO then you add a Singed-off-by > trailer". But it does not say anything about people who cannot > certify. A natural reading may be that if you cannot certify, you > do not add the trailer, but it shouldn't hurt to be overly explicit. It doesn't matter if a person *can* certify, what matters is if the person *does* certify. In a weeding ceremony when asked "do you take this woman to be your wife?", the answer that is looked for is not "I can". Do you or don't you? Is the question. > diff --git c/Documentation/SubmittingPatches w/Documentation/SubmittingPatches > index d12094bac5..b091730771 100644 > --- c/Documentation/SubmittingPatches > +++ w/Documentation/SubmittingPatches > @@ -307,35 +307,35 @@ wrote the patch or have the right to pass it on under the same license > as ours, by "signing off" your patch. Without sign-off, we cannot > accept your patches. > > -If you can certify the below D-C-O: > +If (and only if) you can certify the below D-C-O: If you certify the bellow D-C-O: > [[dco]] > .Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1 > ____ -- Felipe Contreras
