here we are again: real name 'discussion'

[Christian Marangi (Ansuel)]

Il giorno mer 27 mar 2024 alle ore 13:33 Paul D <newtwen at gmail.com> ha scritto:
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> > a) It's a policy change and not a code change.
> > Policy changes require a vote
>
> Then take a(nother) vote.
>

Honestly due to the conflicts, lets just take a vote and be done with it.
Members seem to participate more so it should not be a problem.

My 2 cent on the problem of permitting nick is that if we accept that,
some funny guy might use nickname like "ExtraHardCockSucker"
and we wouldn't have anything to say about it and have to accept
it if the contribution is correct.

Using Real name prevents that (on 99% of the case)
Examples of the case are (quoting an italian name)
"Antonio Bocchino" where bocchino means in italian blowjob...
It's a funny surname but still less worse than "UltraBoobsLover" kind.

Other project even use an entire google form to make user sign DCO
and insert all kind of info.

> https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2024-January/042063.html
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>
> > b) Just because the kernel changed their interpretation of DCO
> > requirements doesn't mean this automatically applies to OpenWrt
> > contribution policy.
>
> https://openwrt.org/submitting-patches
>
>
> > c) It's completely unclear what the new intended requirements are.
>
> For whom? Sorry, I do not understand what you're getting at here.
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> > The Kernel's "clarification" regarding this topic is *very* vague in my
> > opinion. What does "known identity" even mean? Known to whom, and to
> > what degree?
>
> Do not conflate vague with abstract. The thing we care about here is an
> email address. Can anyone know it? Yes. Can everyone know it? Yes. Can
> two people have an identical email address? No. ( This is distinct from
> two people *using* one email address ).
>
> Lavabit shut down over the FBIs pursuit of a single email address
> (namely Snowden). If an email address is good enough for the FBI, it's
> good enough for DCO.
>
> "
> A real name does not require a legal name, nor a birth name, nor any
> name that appears on an official ID (e.g. a passport).
> "
>
>
> > If somebody contributes with his GitHub handle, does that already count
> > as known?
>
> When they're backed by en email address, yes.
>