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Dear Jakub, dear Greg,


Am 03.11.20 um 19:39 schrieb Jakub Kicinski:
> On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 08:35:09 +0100 Paul Menzel wrote:
>> According to *Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1* [3], it’s my
>> understanding, that it is *not* required. The items (a), (b), and (c)
>> are connected by an *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
> 
> Ack, but then you need to put yourself as the author, because it's
> you certifying that the code falls under (b).
> 
> At least that's my understanding.

Greg, can you please clarify, if it’s fine, if I upstream a patch 
authored by somebody else and distributed under the GPLv2? I put them as 
the author and signed it off.

(In this case the change, adding an if condition, is also trivial.)


Kind regards,

Paul