From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 03:35:52 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] We can not allow anonymous contributions to the kernel
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.18~13^2~21
X-Git-Url: http://git.osdn.net/view?p=armadillo-ux%2Flinux-2.6-armadillo.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=af45f32d25cc1e374184675eadc9f740221d8392

[PATCH] We can not allow anonymous contributions to the kernel

The DCO does not mean anything if we allow anonymous contributors to the
kernel.  As this is an open source project, we need to do everything in the
open.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 2cd7f02ffd0..d42ab4c9e89 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -308,6 +308,8 @@ then you just add a line saying
 
 	Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@developer.example.org>
 
+using your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.)
+
 Some people also put extra tags at the end.  They'll just be ignored for
 now, but you can do this to mark internal company procedures or just
 point out some special detail about the sign-off.