On 12/12/19 10:09 am, Eric Anholt wrote:
On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 2:35 PM Timothy Arceri <tarc...@itsqueeze.com> wrote:
Hi,
So it seems lately we have been increasingly merging patches with made
up names, or single names etc [1]. The latest submitted patch has the
name Icecream95. This seems wrong to me from a point of keeping up the
integrity of the project. I'm not a legal expert but it doesn't seem
ideal to be amassing commits with these type of author tags from that
point of view either.
Is it just me or do others agree we should at least require a proper
name on the commits (as fake as that may be also)? Seems like a low bar
to me.
I'm of the opinion that in fact all names are made up, and we don't
want to be getting into the business of requiring legal names for
committing. If legal names were what you were getting at: have you
checked the legal names of your fellow contributors match what they're
contributing under?
My question was: "do others agree we should at least require a proper
name on the commits (as fake as that may be also)?"
I don't know what legal risk you might be thinking of, that seems like
spreading fear for no reason to me.
If the implications aren't obvious I'm not going to bother arguing
further, as I'm not a legal expert. I'm more concerned about the look of
the project. IMO contributions with names like Icecream95 just look
unprofessional.
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