Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 May 2004 10:15:15 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [RFD] Explicitly documenting patch submission |
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On Tue, 25 May 2004, Ben Collins wrote: > > I've got a question about this. A lot of times I get patches that are > just one/two-liners and the explanation is somewhat self-explantory, > etc. Say the patch comes to me from some patch collection maintainer, > who got it from the original author. > > So the original person never put a Signed-off-by, and neither did the > person who sent me the patch, should I still add the eplicit > Signed-off-by's to the patch, and add myself, before sending it to you?
You should never sign off for somebody else.
You _can_ sign off as yourself, and just add a note of "From xxxx". That's what the (b) case is all about (ie "to the best of my knowledge it's already under a open-source license").
Of course, if it's a _big_ work with lots of original content, and you're unsure of exactly what the original author wanted to do with this, you obviously should _not_ sign off on it. But you knew that.
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