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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Cc: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-project] [PATCH] glep-0076: Relax name policy to allow pseudonyms
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2023 18:02:52
Message-Id: 20230302180244.4917-1-mgorny@gentoo.org
1 Update the signoff rules of GLEP 76 to allow using established
2 pseudonyms in addition to legal names. This follows a similar change
3 that has been carried in the Linux kernel's documentation [1] that
4 Gentoo's policy has been based on.
5
6 This change is proposed instead of the "version 1.2" that has been
7 approved on 2022-12-11 but have not been pushed yet. That version made
8 the wording significantly more complex without actually addressing
9 the original issue.
10
11 [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d4563201f33a022fc0353033d9dfeb1606a88330
12
13 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/805575
14 Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o>
15 ---
16 glep-0076.rst | 20 ++++++++++----------
17 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
18
19 diff --git a/glep-0076.rst b/glep-0076.rst
20 index 2216483..8a1ce94 100644
21 --- a/glep-0076.rst
22 +++ b/glep-0076.rst
23 @@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ Author: Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o>,
24 Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o>
25 Type: Informational
26 Status: Active
27 -Version: 1.1
28 +Version: 1.3
29 Created: 2013-04-23
30 Last-Modified: 2022-07-02
31 -Post-History: 2018-06-10, 2018-06-19, 2018-08-31, 2018-09-26
32 +Post-History: 2018-06-10, 2018-06-19, 2018-08-31, 2018-09-26, 2023-03-02
33 Content-Type: text/x-rst
34 ---
35
36 @@ -136,9 +136,9 @@ the Certificate of Origin by adding ::
37
38 Signed-off-by: Name <e-mail>
39
40 -to the commit message as a separate line. The sign-off must contain
41 -the committer's legal name as a natural person, i.e., the name that
42 -would appear in a government issued document.
43 +to the commit message as a separate line, using a known identity.
44 +This could be the committer's legal name as a natural person
45 +or an established online identity.
46
47 The following is the current Gentoo Certificate of Origin, revision 1:
48
49 @@ -242,9 +242,9 @@ to protect the Gentoo infrastructure owners and improve consistency.
50
51 The copyright model is built on the DCO model used by the Linux kernel
52 and requires all contributors to certify the legitimacy of their
53 -contributions. This also requires that they use their real name for
54 -signing; an anonymous certification or one under a pseudonym would not
55 -mean anything. This policy is derived from the Linux project's policy
56 +contributions. This also requires that they use a known identity for
57 +signing; an anonymous certification would not mean anything.
58 +This policy is derived from the Linux project's policy as of 2023-02-27
59 [#SUBMITTING-PATCHES]_.
60
61 In the future, a second stage of this policy may use a combination of
62 @@ -378,8 +378,8 @@ References
63
64 .. [#SUBMITTING-PATCHES] Submitting patches: the essential guide to
65 getting your code into the kernel,
66 - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v4.18#n460
67 - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=af45f32d25cc1e374184675eadc9f740221d8392
68 + https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?id=d4563201f33a022fc0353033d9dfeb1606a88330#n410
69 + https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d4563201f33a022fc0353033d9dfeb1606a88330
70
71 .. [#CC-SOFTWARE] Can I apply a Creative Commons license to software?
72 https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-commons-license-to-software
73 --
74 2.39.2

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