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dco [2017/07/17 22:36] emsearcy reference IP policies |
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* Contributor agreements are typically made once, covering for all future contributions. | * Contributor agreements are typically made once, covering for all future contributions. | ||
* A contributor agreement may be signed by a third party, like a company, on behalf of its employees, whereas the DCO is always an attestation by the author of the contribution. | * A contributor agreement may be signed by a third party, like a company, on behalf of its employees, whereas the DCO is always an attestation by the author of the contribution. | ||
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- | ===== Policy ===== | ||
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- | In compliance with their IP policies, Linux Foundation projects MUST incorporate a mandatory mechanism to enforce the DCO on all contributions. | ||
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- | In the contribution guidelines for each project (e.g. a CONTRIBUTING.md file) the project SHOULD make explicit that the DCO is required, and that commit sign-offs of the form ''Signed-off-by:'' are attestations according to [[https://developercertificate.org/]]. | ||
===== Enabling DCO enforcement ===== | ===== Enabling DCO enforcement ===== |