Can DCO be configured to not run on merges between protected branches?

[atbenmurray]

DCO seems to essentially prevent being able to merge from a 'main-like' branch such as main or dev to a feature branch to keep it up to date. It isn't practical to ask all the authors who've contributed to dev to resign commits so we can keep the feature branch up to date with dev. Is there a way to supress DCO when merging between protected branches?