The Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) checks

As per section 13.a of the Hyperledger Charter all code submitted to the Hyperledger Foundation needs to have a Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) sign-off.

This certifies that you are able to submit your contribution to our repository under the license of the repository, and for the contribution to be redistributed under that same license.

You can "sign" this certificate by including a line in the git commit of "Signed-off-by: Legal Name <email-address>".

How to work with DCO

When Committing

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1. Set your legal name in the git configuration:
   git config user.name "Legal Name" 
2. Set your email in the git configuration:
   git config user.email "email@address" 
3. Add the -s  or --signoff  to all git commit  invocations.
   1. Add a git alias:
      git config --global alias.c 'commit --signoff'
and then run "git c" instead of "git commit"
   2. In IntelliJ
      

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