Arvados

h1. Developer Certificate Of Origin

Contributions must be signed off. The sign-off is a simple line at the end of the commit message for the patch, which certifies that you wrote it or otherwise have the right to contribute it under the license listed in the file(s) modified. 

The rules are pretty simple: if you can certify the below (from developercertificate.org):

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Developer Certificate of Origin

Version 1.1

Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.

660 York Street, Suite 102,

San Francisco, CA 94110 USA

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this

license document, but changing it is not allowed.

Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1

By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:

(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I

    have the right to submit it under the open source license

    indicated in the file; or

(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best

    of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source

    license and I have the right under that license to submit that

    work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part

    by me, under the same open source license (unless I am

    permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated

    in the file; or

(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other

    person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified

    it.

(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution

    are public and that a record of the contribution (including all

    personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is

    maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with

    this project or the open source license(s) involved.

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then you add a line to every commit message:

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Arvados-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@email.com>

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using your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.)

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