[gentoo-project] GLEP-0076's "committer's Legal name" vs international names

[Robin H. Johnson]

Hi,

I've recently seen a bug [1] where a contributer was implicitly told
that their name wasn't their "full name".

GLEP-0076 states "The sign-off must contain the committer's legal name
as a natural person, i.e., the name that would appear in a government
issued document."

If the person has multiple government-issued documents that don't
exactly match, but ARE a form accepted by the issuing government, then
Gentoo SHOULD accept them, and clearly document known forms (probably in
an appendix to the GLEP).

I'd like this the GLEP text I cited above, to be changed to:
"The sign-off must contain the committer's legal name as a natural
person, i.e., the name that would appear in a government issued
document, in the commonly used form for that committer. (See Appendix
for examples)"

Population groups around the world have different naming schemes, this
include such things as first-name only (no surname), multiple legal
names. A longer list is available at "Falsehoods Programmers Believe
About Names" [2]

I'm going to contribute the first examples for the Appendix here, based
on cases I'm recently aware of.

Canada: French-Canadian Names
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Catholic naming practices [3] may mean that a person has additional first
names [4] that appear in SOME of their government issued documentation,
but not all documentation.
E.g. "Jean Chrétien", former Canadian prime minster has a birth
certificate and some ID that use "Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien",
while other ID uses "Jean Chrétien".
   
India: 
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India, as a diverse country, has a variety of naming schemes [5], and
differing government ID rules [6] applied to those names. Notably, it
is common for parts of names to be written with initials on some
forms of ID, particularly where the initial is used to shorten a
specific known word (e.g. village name), such as "E.V. Ramasamy".

Indonesia:
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It is possible to have only a single name (Mononymic), and no
surname. e.g. "Suharto" 

[1] not linked because it's presently redacted at the request of the
person that opened it 
[2] https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names-with-examples/
[3] Canada names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_name#French_Canadian_names
[4] Canada Example: https://www.richmond-news.com/local-news/richmond-resident-fighting-icbc-over-catholic-first-names-3674843
[5] Indian names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_name
[6] India Example: https://scroll.in/latest/833897/people-with-initials-special-characters-in-their-names-face-problems-linking-their-pan-and-aadhaar
[7] Indonesian names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_names#Mononymic_names

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