On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 07:28:42PM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:

> 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.

No, they are not. If you bring government ID with a name on it that is
good enough. So if you get a passport/driving license with whichever
name you would like this week then that is good enough.

So we are exactly as fussy.

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