[Buildroot] [git commit branch/2023.05.x] docs/manual: add section to explain how to give credits to a sponsor

[Peter Korsgaard]

commit: https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=abedb15b530a188ae1f5f514dde7dc98ffd3e76c
branch: https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=refs/heads/2023.05.x

Sometimes it happens that a Company or a Physical Person sponsors the
creation and/or the upstreaming process of a patch, but at the moment
there is no way to give credits to it. In Linux they prepend '+sponsor'
to the e-mail of the contributor in both authorship and commit log tag as
discussed here[0]. So let's describe in the manual how to do that as a
standard.

[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20230817220957.41582-1-giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com/

Signed-off-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti at benettiengineering.com>
[yann.morin.1998 at free.fr:
  - reword to reference sub-addressing and the RFC
  - move to the "submitting patches" section, that already deals with
    SoB tags
  - differentiate between Your/Their names
]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
(cherry picked from commit de349df08c653a822166f94dbe01295a5a3cfa6e)
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
---
 docs/manual/contribute.txt | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/manual/contribute.txt b/docs/manual/contribute.txt
index 94f1c64496..15fe36aef0 100644
--- a/docs/manual/contribute.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/contribute.txt
@@ -247,6 +247,23 @@ which have the upstream license), and that you are allowed to do so.
 See http://developercertificate.org/[the Developer Certificate of
 Origin] for details.
 
+To give credits to who sponsored the creation of a patch or the process of
+upstreaming it, you may use
+https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5233[email subaddressing] for
+your git identity (i.e. what is used as commit author and email +From:+
+field, as well as your Signed-off-by tag); add suffix to the local part,
+separated from it by a plus `+` sign. E.g.:
+
+* for a company which sponsored the submitted work, use the company name
+  as the detail (suffix) part:
++
+`Your-Name Your-Surname <your-name.your-surname+companyname at mail.com>`
+
+* for an individual who sponsored who sponsored the submitted work, use
+  their name and surname:
++
+`Your-Name Your-Surname <your-name.your-surname+their-name.their-surname at mail.com>`
+
 When adding new packages, you should submit every package in a
 separate patch. This patch should have the update to
 +package/Config.in+, the package +Config.in+ file, the +.mk+ file, the