.. _DCO:

Developer Certificate of Origin
===============================

The Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) ensures that persons contributing
code are allowed to do so and that the project stays under a free license.
This is indicated by a sign-off.

The sign-off is a simple line at the end of the explanation for the
patch, which certifies that you wrote it or otherwise have the right to
pass it on as an open-source patch.  The rules are pretty simple: if you
can certify the below:

.. literalinclude:: dco.txt

then you just add a line saying::

	Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@developer.example.org>

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