On 9/7/2011 5:39 PM, eric b wrote:
Hi ****** , Le 7 sept. 11 à 22:03, Hagar Delest a écrit :
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The question is imho very important : is it allowed to cheat with the identity, inside the Apache Foundation ? I sincerily expect the answer is no.
Is it allowed to cheat with one's identity at the ASF? No, if by cheating you mean purposefully doing something fraudulent.
What is allowed is using a consistent alias on mailing lists, bugtrackers, and wikis, unless specific projects somehow have a policy on real names.
That said, we've found it's certainly a best practice to use real names (or consistent aliases that can be tied to real names) to ensure healthy communities. When a whole healthy community agrees to work together, having real names helps ensure politeness. And when I say healthy community, part of what that means is that the whole community actively polices their mailing lists, and deals directly with troublesome posters.
To become a committer, the ASF requires that people sign an iCLA [1], which grants the ASF license to their contributions to our projects - this ensures that we can then ship our projects to end users under our Apache License. Note that no copyright assignment is required or even asked for.
Part of the iCLA process requires your real name and a legal signature, which the ASF needs to ensure we can validate it. The iCLA also has a space for a public name which you may choose to supply; thus you can provide a pseudonym by which you're known publicly at Apache.
We publish lists of public names and Apache account IDs [2]. We do not publish real names of iCLA signers.
Note that very very few people use a pseudonym when signing the iCLA; well under 1%.
Any other specific questions about policy? 8-) - Shane [1] http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas [2] http://people.apache.org/committer-index.html
