To handle the legal aspects of contribution, we ask each Pull Request submitter to sign the Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1 (DCO) [1] that the Linux® Kernel community uses [2] to manage code contributions.
[1] legal/DCO1.1.txt [2] https://elinux.org/Developer_Certificate_Of_Origin
We simply ask that when submitting a patch for review, the developer must include a sign-off statement in the commit message.
Here is an example Signed-off-by line, which indicates that the submitter accepts the DCO linked above:
Signed-off-by: Your Name <your@mail.org>
As of now, you need to add a sign-off message to every commit. To reduce the burden, we recommend squashing the commits in the PR as much as possible, or use the following:
You can include this automatically when you commit a change to your local git repository using the following command:
git commit -s
Alternatively/in addition you can have a template for your commit text in a file
like git-commit-template with the DCO above, and run git config commit.template git-commit-template once to have it as your default when running git commit.