drop the signed-off-by "requirement" about libratbag HOT 4 CLOSED

I am fine with that. The problem I see is that github is not that convenient to add the sign-off-by after the pull request has been sent unless we re-write the patches.
So if we want to keep external contributors, it should not be a hard requirement.

However, I still like the signed-off-by, it help keeping tracks of who wrote which code, so I will definitively encourage people to use it and I will personally use it.

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well, the 'easy' way would be to pull it locally, then rebase/rewrite the commits and push to master. which is what we're doing wherever we don't use github's pull clickyness.

if we keep it, we should document what it means though :) even if it is just a link to the kernel doc

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I keep forgetting s-o-b - sorry. The other projects I work on typically do not use it so I forget.

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closing because there isn't much more to discuss. We encourage the s-o-b and may require it for some things (e.g. device drivers where the legal situation could be hairy) but we'll be lenient where we can be.

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