On 3/8/06, gl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After Linus was about to commit one of my patches, it turns out the project > leaders are not willing to accept contributions under a pseudonym. This may > be normal in the GPL world, but for someone from the Windows / BSD license > world, this seems utterly bizarre. An open-source project should be about > contributions, and be as accomodating as possible to the people it asking to > contribute their time and effort to. I have no problems following technical > guidelines - but I'm not about to compromise my personal choices for a > project that requires quality contributions to survive. > > So, as the decision is apparently final I'm signing off. I guess my various > patches and WPS will either remain private, or will be released > independently at some point. Although if they're not going to get to CVS, I > don't really see the point. > > I think you guys should debate whether this really is the best way to go...
sad, and (not less sadly) not the first time... ~lImbus
