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

[Michael Everitt]

On 10/04/19 01:17, Aaron Bauman wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 06:49:11PM -0400, Chris Reffett wrote:
>> On 4/9/2019 6:10 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
>>> On 4/10/19 12:05 AM, Michael Everitt wrote:
>>>> Not all cases are simply ones where a person does not wish to use their
>>>> full given name, there are perfectly decent arguments for using a pseudonym
>>>> when there could be mild or severe ramifications if their true identity was
>>>> in the public domain. I'm thinking as obvious examples of those involved in
>>>> security/penetration work, where it may be required, and not simply
>>>> desirable to keep ones primary identity confidential. Are we really so
>>>> draconian to eliminate these (often very well-skilled individuals) for
>>>> making a specialist contribution to Gentoo Linux?!
>>> The ultimate goal is to ensure that contributions are actually by the
>>> ones holding a valid copyright, or the contribution being of a license
>>> that is allowed under a license from the copyright holder. As mentioned
>>> in the link in prior post, GPL itself doesn't explicitly exclude the
>>> warranty of non-infridgement under UCC which can have severe legal
>>> consequences if a third party relies on the contribution, and as such
>>> puts Gentoo in a legal liability if we can't reasonably explain such
>>> contributions. As long as the copyright is valid and we can document it,
>>> it is fine, but as soon as things gets murky...
>>>
> Michael, I would be very intrigued to read about such pseudonyms being
> required by cybersecurity folks... references?
>
I was only using that as a [poor] example of ramifications of persons in
high security fields having their public identity freely waved around ..
(depending very much on what that particular field happened to be, and who
you're working for; but now we're splitting hairs as well as building straw
men .. and I'm not sure how thin this straw is ........)