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>>>>> On Sat, 08 Sep 2018, Andrew Savchenko wrote: |
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>> This also requires that they use their real name for signing; an |
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>> anonymous certification or one under a pseudonym would not mean |
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>> anything. |
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Yes, that's the rationale. We can simply forget about the whole |
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copyright policy effort, if we don't require committers to certify |
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their contributions under their real name. |
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> I don't like this. We have anonymous developers right now (at least |
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> their names are not public even in LDAP). The cited requirement will |
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> effectively kick them from the project. Moreover we have contributors |
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> considering to become developers who prefer to keep their anonymity. |
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According to recruitment policy [1] (which is in place since 2004 [2] |
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at least), there cannot be any anonymous developers doing copyrightable |
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work: |
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# Real names must be provided for all developers, including |
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# infrastructure and documentation. Any exceptions to this for |
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# extenuating circumstances will be considered on a case-by-case |
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# basis. No exceptions will be made for people doing copyrightable |
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# work (ebuilds, software, scripts, documentation, etc.). |
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AFAICS, the GLEP will only confirm the existing policy there. |
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Ulrich |
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[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Recruiters/Recruiting |
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[2] https://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/devrel/recruiters/index.xml?r1=1.14&r2=1.15 |
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