Re: [gentoo-project] call for agenda items -- council meeting 2019-04-14

[Andrew Savchenko]

On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 18:41:13 +0200 Michał Górny wrote:
> On Sun, 2019-04-14 at 19:13 +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> > On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 11:48:06 -0400 Aaron Bauman wrote:
> > > On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 06:28:15PM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 16:11:50 +0200 Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> > > > > > I support the idea of Gentoo being more inclusive.
> > > > >
> > > > > Can we please keep irrelevant buzzwords out?
> > > >
> > > > There is nothing irrelevant here. Gentoo is kicking people who
> > > > want to contribute because doesn't want to respect their privacy
> > > > because of some imaginary problems which were never appeared or
> > > > tested in real life. This makes Gentoo exclusive to those who want
> > > > their authorship to be public.
> > > >
> > > > Best regards,
> > > > Andrew Savchenko
> > >
> > > Andrew, it is not imaginary.  Playing the emotional game doesn't help
> > > either.  I am fairly certain all of those who had to make this decision
> > > have expressed their willingness to change it should it be supported
> > > legally.  It simply is not.
> >
> > If it is not imaginary please provide a court case against Gentoo
> > or other free software distribution on this matter and some
> > evidence that proposed signed-off real name attribution played a
> > measurable effect.
> >
> > As far as I can see this whole story is pure speculation of:
> > 1) what may happen
> > 2) what will help if 1) is to happen.
> >
> > So far I saw zero practical evidence on both points.
>
> So to summarize, you're claiming that you're allowed to do anything
> as long as the other person can't prove somebody has already been
> punished for the same thing?  I suppose that's a pretty interesting
> concept of law.

Do not twist my words. I'm asking for either a court case or an
exact citation of the law which demands us to provide real names
for all commits.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko