The text says "if you can certify DCO then you add a Signed-off-by
trailer". But it does not say anything about people who cannot or
do not want to certify. A natural reading may be that if you do not
certify, you must not add the trailer, but it shouldn't hurt to be
overly explicit.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
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Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index d12094bac5..0452db2e67 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ wrote the patch or have the right to pass it on under the same license
as ours, by "signing off" your patch. Without sign-off, we cannot
accept your patches.
-If you can certify the below D-C-O:
+If (and only if) you certify the below D-C-O:
[[dco]]
.Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
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