Code, conflict, and conduct

Posted Sep 24, 2018 3:10 UTC (Mon) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)
Parent article: Code, conflict, and conduct

I'm a little puzzled by the list of "Signed-off-by" lines on the code-of-conduct commit.

Signed-off-by is simply a statement affirming the "Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1", so it just says that all these people believe they either wrote the patch, or received it with an appropriate license, and in any case claim they have the right to include it in the kernel. Surely we don't so many developers to certify the origin of this patch?

It would have made much more sense to have multiple "Acked-by".