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| author |   Martin Braun <martin@gnuradio.org> | 2020-12-11 15:48:29 +0100 |
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| committer |   Marcus Müller <marcus@hostalia.de> | 2020-12-17 13:05:41 +0100 |
| commit | a95041c384a2998bdddff95ca624d9374095098f (patch) | |
| tree | ccd9af5db2175e635e8d470c1eb4e170bacb2769 /CONTRIBUTING.md | |
| parent | fec: remove stray pybind submodule definition for polar (diff) | |
| download | gnuradio-a95041c384a2998bdddff95ca624d9374095098f.tar.xz gnuradio-a95041c384a2998bdddff95ca624d9374095098f.zip | |
Update the repository to reflect the requirement to sign the DCO
Going forward, we will be requiring contributors to sign the DCO. This
commit adds the DCO text itself and updates the contribution guidelines.
Signed-off-by: Martin Braun <martin@gnuradio.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'CONTRIBUTING.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | CONTRIBUTING.md | 21 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 4971c99b9..0efa98527 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -23,12 +23,22 @@ list, answers on Stack Overflow, Wiki page edits, examples... We very much appreciate those. However, this document is specifically about contributing code. -## CLA filed? +## DCO Signed? -The GNU Radio codebase's copyright belongs to the Free Software Foundation. Any -submission that gets merged must therefore be assigned to the FSF. Exceptions -are small or obvious changes (< 10 lines, typically) or documentation changes. -See also [What's this Copyright Assignment?][cla]. +Any code contributions going into GNU Radio will become part of a GPL-licensed, +open source repository. It is therefore imperative that code submissions belong +to the authors, and that submitters have the authority to merge that code into +the public GNU Radio codebase. + +For that purpose, we use the [Developer's Certificate of Origin](DCO.txt). It +is the same document used by other projects. Signing the DCO states that there +are no legal reasons to not merge your code. + +To sign the DCO, suffix your git commits with a "Signed-off-by" line. When +using the command line, you can use `git commit -s` to automatically add this +line. If there were multiple authors of the code, or other types of +stakeholders, make sure that all are listed, each with a separate Signed-off-by +line. ## Coding Guidelines @@ -79,6 +89,5 @@ please follow existing examples regarding their command line arguments, and reuse them. [grep1]: https://github.com/gnuradio/greps/blob/master/grep-0001-coding-guidelines.md -[cla]: https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/Development#What.27s_this_Copyright_Assignment.3F [wikicontrib]: https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/Development [gr-devs]: https://github.com/orgs/gnuradio/teams/gr-devs |