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<a href="https://gitlab.rtems.org/c-mauderer">Christian Mauderer</a>
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<p dir="auto" style="color: #3a383f; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;" align="initial">From my point of view, there is a difference.</p>
<p dir="auto" style="color: #3a383f; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;" align="initial">The author of a commit is generated automatically. Git doesn't allow a commit without an author. The "Signed-off-by" line has to be explicitly added. The help in git tells you the following:</p>
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<pre class="code highlight js-syntax-highlight language-plaintext" v-pre="true" style="display: block; font-size: 14px; color: #3a383f; line-height: 1.6em; overflow-x: auto; border-radius: .25rem; position: relative; font-family: "GitLab Mono", "JetBrains Mono", "Menlo", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Liberation Mono", "Consolas", "Ubuntu Mono", "Courier New", "andale mono", "lucida console", monospace; font-variant-ligatures: none; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word; background-color: #fbfafd; margin: 0px 0 1rem; padding: 12px; border: 1px solid #dcdcde;"><code style="font-size: inherit; color: inherit; word-wrap: normal; word-break: keep-all; background-color: inherit; border-radius: .25rem; white-space: pre; margin-top: 0px; font-family: "GitLab Mono", "JetBrains Mono", "Menlo", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Liberation Mono", "Consolas", "Ubuntu Mono", "Courier New", "andale mono", "lucida console", monospace; font-variant-ligatures: none; overflow-wrap: normal; padding: unset;"><span id="LC1" class="line" lang="plaintext" style="margin-top: 0px;"> -s, --signoff, --no-signoff</span>
<span id="LC2" class="line" lang="plaintext"> Add a Signed-off-by trailer by the committer at the</span>
<span id="LC3" class="line" lang="plaintext"> end of the commit log message. The meaning of a</span>
<span id="LC4" class="line" lang="plaintext"> signoff depends on the project to which you’re</span>
<span id="LC5" class="line" lang="plaintext"> committing. For example, it may certify that the</span>
<span id="LC6" class="line" lang="plaintext"> committer has the rights to submit the work under the</span>
<span id="LC7" class="line" lang="plaintext"> project’s license or agrees to some contributor</span>
<span id="LC8" class="line" lang="plaintext"> representation, such as a Developer Certificate of</span>
<span id="LC9" class="line" lang="plaintext"> Origin. (See https://developercertificate.org for the</span>
<span id="LC10" class="line" lang="plaintext"> one used by the Linux kernel and Git projects.)</span>
<span id="LC11" class="line" lang="plaintext"> Consult the documentation or leadership of the</span>
<span id="LC12" class="line" lang="plaintext"> project to which you’re contributing to understand</span>
<span id="LC13" class="line" lang="plaintext"> how the signoffs are used in that project.</span></code></pre>
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<p dir="auto" style="color: #3a383f; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;" align="initial">So you actively accept the rules. For most projects it's the Linux foundations <a href="https://developercertificate.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px;">https://developercertificate.org/</a>. If a project tells you to add a "Signed-off-by" line, it more or less tells you: Read our minimal rules here and acknowledge that you accept them.</p>
<p dir="auto" style="color: #3a383f; margin: 0px;" align="initial">So if I would submit a patch as "John Smith" instead of my real name, you at least have a statement from "John Smith" that he accepted the rules even if you haven't verified that "John Smith" is a real person. You don't have anyone to hold liable if John Smith did something mean. But it would be also a problem for me to claim any rights based on that wrong name.</p>
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