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>>>>> On Thu, 05 Aug 2021, Anna Vyalkova wrote: |
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> This would also improve transgender inclusiveness (in cases where legal |
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> name is also a deadname[0] and deadnaming yourself is not an option). |
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> However, the requirement will stay the same for committers. Maybe "legal |
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> name" should be changed to "real name" (like in Linux kernel docs[1]) or |
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> "preferred name" with examples other than government documents in |
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> addition? |
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As a matter of fact, a previous version of the policy had "real name" |
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but we changed it to "legal name": |
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https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glep.git/commit/?id=dcc841a715dfa077258fa3f8bef5f15ee22148cb |
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This was the result of a long IRC discussion between Council members and |
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Trustees on 2018-09-26. The idea was to somewhat _widen_ the definition. |
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One case specifically mentioned during the discussion was to allow using |
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a religious name or pseudonym ("Ordens- oder Künstlername"). |
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For example, the German Passport Act (PassG) allows such a name to be |
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listed, see Section 4, Subsection 1, second sentence, no. 4: |
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https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_pa_g/englisch_pa_g.html#p0037 |
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This would qualify as a "legal name" because it appears in an official |
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document, but not necessarily as a "real name". |
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> (also i'm not sure about sign-offs from plural[2] people) |
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> [0]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deadname |
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> [1]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html |
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> [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplicity_(psychology) |
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Ulrich |
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