On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 11:18 AM John Harris <johnmh(a)splentity.com> wrote:
On Friday, January 18, 2019 8:14:32 AM EST Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> Note: Adding the Signed-off-by: line to a patch should be a conscious
> act and means that you certify you have the rights to submit this work
> under the same open source license.
I'd argue that changing your project-specific .gitconfig to sign-off any
commits is definitely a conscious act. Regardless, proprietary projects would
have just as much of a reason to have their developers sign-off their commits,
unless they solve the issue through a strong CLA or other contract with all
developers contributing. This is not specific to 'open source' or free
software projects.
I was quoting from the git manpage. I didn't choose those words. Take
it up with git upstream :-)