Yes, Reported-by is the original reporter. Signed-off-by is fallout from the SCO lawsuit. It has nothing to do with agreeing to any sort of CLA; it's just anot

Yes, Reported-by is the original reporter. Signed-off-by is fallout from the SCO lawsuit. It has nothing to do with agreeing to any sort of CLA; it's just another way to confirm that the code was written by the person in Signed-off-by, or that the person in Signed-off-by thinks it was created under appropriate open source conditions (e.g. the company who paid the developer to write it is okay with it being released).