Hi Jason, On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 04:03:21PM +0530, Jason Merrill wrote: > On 11/10/25 2:59 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote: > >Ping again. Please let us know if there are any other tweaks needed to > >the text or if it is good to go now. > > To be clear, my understanding of this wording is that e.g. when > waffl3x started to contribute under that pseudonym he would still > have needed to file a copyright assignment because it was not (yet) > a known identity.
Yes. Originally they wanted to use a completely anonymous pseudonym associated with an anonymous email address. And they did indeed got an assignment with the FSF to keep their pseudonym annonymous. Later they did use their "corporate" identity/email address, still not using their "real name", but their company has a corporate disclaimer on file and obviously knows who they are. So that would imho be fine. In general I think we have to assume good intent. If someone says their identity is who they are then we have to accept that. The intent is that they take "responsibility" for their contribution and don't deliberately try to deceive (there is no fool proof way of knowing that of course). > With that understanding, the patch is OK. Thanks, pushed, Mark
