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>>>>> On Wed, 4 Jan 2017, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: |
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> On 01/04/2017 09:46 PM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: |
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>> And what about anonymous developers? We do have them and in modern |
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>> world people may have good reasons to stay anonymous. Just reminds |
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>> me about US braindead law allowing company to own all code written |
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>> by dev, while he/she is employed, even when that code was written |
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>> using during off-duty hours or vacation days. |
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> Anonymous developers cause issues in other aspects as well, including |
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> copyright considerations. I'm not convinced it is necessarily a good |
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> thing to support it to a great extent. |
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Right, copyright issues alone are reason enough that developers should |
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commit under their real name. Recruiters have it in their rules [1] |
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since a long time that no exceptions to that rule will be made for |
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devs doing copyrightable work. So this isn't anything new. |
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Also I'm pretty sure that US law (or rather employment contracts) |
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doesn't differentiate between somebody committing under their real |
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name or under a pseudonym. The latter just hides the problem and has |
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a potential for repercussions at some later time. |
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Ulrich |
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[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Recruiters#What_does_the_recruitment_process_involve.3F |
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