On Thursday 20 January 2005 7:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 07:01:14PM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote: > > > Then why do you care anyway? :) > > > > Because I don't like people telling me (or anyone else) what my/their > > name is. > > Gentoo is no fussier than the government is. If its alright by them, > its alright by us.
Actually, Gentoo is. The government doesn't insist on people signing exactly what their ID has printed. Christopher could sign Chris, you can omit/abbreviate names, etc... With common law, the government even admits it does not have the authority to tell you what your name it-- if it is your name (by definition of the word 'name'), they accept it. Gentoo deals specifically with copyrights. The US government doesn't require a name of any kind to be used for a copyright. I could write some random program without any comments or copyright information whatsoever, and it would still be legally copyrighted to me. -- Luke-Jr Developer, Utopios http://utopios.org/ -- [email protected] mailing list
