Am Mittwoch, 19. September 2018, 12:02:22 CEST schrieb Luigi Toscano: > > Same as above on the whole. At least in Scotland there's no > > restrictions on what name you chose to use for any purpose as long as > > it's not for fraud. Obviously the harder it is to prove a name > > matches to a real person the harder it would be to test in a > > worst-case-scenario court case but I think limiting it would just > > limit our contributions for no good reason. > > The possibility of a court case (and all the complications related to > copyright laws) is a good enough reason.
I have seen at least 4 FOSS projects with the opposite problem: a specific person using that info to harass people, including: - calling them at their home - slandering their name, including false accusations most horrible crimes - calling their employers and families, trying to get them in trouble so I understand every person who prefers to work under a pseudonym and I think we should not make this impossible. Kind regards, Christian
