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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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- | ===== IP policy requirements ===== | ||
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- | When a Linux Foundation project's IP policy requires DCO signoffs for contributions, a mechanism shall be set up to enforce them. | ||
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- | In the contribution guidelines for each project (e.g. a CONTRIBUTING.md file) the project should explain the DCO requirement, and that commit sign-offs of the form ''Signed-off-by:'' are attestations according to [[https://developercertificate.org/]]. | ||
===== Enabling DCO enforcement ===== | ===== Enabling DCO enforcement ===== |