On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Glyph <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > On Apr 19, 2012, at 11:51 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > In all those cases I think there should be some core contributors who > know the real identity of the contributor. These must also know the > reason for the anonymity and agree that it's important to maintain it. > It must also be known to the community at large that the contributor > is using a pseudonym. If the contributor is not comfortable revealing > their identity to any core contributors, I don't think there is enough > of a trust relationship to build on for a successful career as a > contributor to Python. > > > I do think that python-dev should be clear that by "real" identity you mean > "legal" identity. > > There are plenty of cases where the name a person is known by in more "real" > situations is not in fact their legal name. There are also cases where > legal names are different in different jurisdictions; especially people with > CJK names may have different orthographies of the "same" name in different > jurisdictions or even completely different names in different places, if > they have immigrated to a different country. > > So there should be a legal name on file somewhere for copyright provenance > purposes, but this should not need to be the same name that is present in > commit logs, as long as there's a mapping recorded that can be made > available to any interested lawyer. > > (Hopefully this is not a practical issue, but this is one of my pet peeves - > for obvious reasons.)
Heh. I was hoping to avoid too much legal wrangling. Note that we don't require legal proof of identity; that would be an undue burden and more than I would personally put up with as a contributor. The primary concept here is trust, and identity can be seen as an approximation of that at best. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
