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As a potential contributor of code to the project, you are highly encouraged to read the Project Charter and in particular note section 12 - Intellectual Property Policy. Contributors are advised to understand that submitting code to the project indicates you agree with the the Developer Certificate of Origin. See the Committing Code Code Guidelines for details on how to sign your code contributions to indicate your agreement with the DCO. See http://elinux.org/Developer_Certificate_Of_Origin for a description of how the Linux kernel implements its DCO.
You can add the DCO signoff to your Git commit by adding the --signoff flag to your git command.
If you've already committed your code to your local branch without the DCO signoff, you can add it with the following commands:
git reset --soft HEAD^git commit --signoff -m "<your original commit message>"
If you've already pushed your code branch to Github and created a pull request, you will need to forcibly override that branch:
git push --force <your remote> <your branch>Submission License and Copyrights
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