On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 19:28 +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.

Whatever, Linda.

> 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.

Yes, and when you went to court over it, I'm sure the case would be
called "Luke-Jr vs. The SCO Group"... :rolleyes:

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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