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Comment by Pay08

5 hours ago

I've never heard of git commits being used in a legal case, do you have any examples?

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tuetuopay  2 hours ago

I don't know if it's been tested in court, but that's the rationale behind the Signed-off-by lines the kernel requires in all patches sent. It's a way to tell the (legal) ownership of a piece of code.

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