Re: Anonymous contributions

2019-04-11 Thread Luca Beltrame
Il giorno Thu, 11 Apr 2019 22:50:57 +0200 Boudewijn Rempt ha scritto: > historical baggage, but anyway). I do agree with you, and I would > like us to start acccepting pseudonymous contributions officially. As a packager who had to deal with many license inconsistencies (not due to bad

Re: Anonymous contributions

2019-04-11 Thread Boudewijn Rempt
On donderdag 11 april 2019 20:56:03 CEST Christoph Cullmann wrote: > As we did never verify any names nor identities, is the discussion not > mood? "Moot" -- as in ent-moot from Lord of the Rings (with lots more of historical baggage, but anyway). I do agree with you, and I would like us to

Re: Anonymous contributions

2019-04-11 Thread Christoph Cullmann
Hi, I tried to re-license parts of KTextEditor in the past. Real names help close to nothing if the mail addresses are no longer valid or the people don't respond, even if valid. You just can't track them, unfortunately there are more "Max Schmidt"s around on the world then lets say "Christoph

Re: Anonymous contributions

2019-04-11 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El dijous, 11 d’abril de 2019, a les 20:56:03 CEST, Christoph Cullmann va escriure: > On 2019-04-11 20:36, David Edmundson wrote: > > We would need to ask a lawyer. > > I only know enough to know that I don't know enough. > Hi, > > independent of any lawyer, my 2 cents: > > As we did never

Re: Anonymous contributions

2019-04-11 Thread Irina Rempt
Can we please distinguish between "real name" and "legal name"? If there's a question of copyright law, legal names may be necessary though for some people (me, for instance) their legal name is not the name they use in daily life and are generally known by. Requiring someone's real name

Re: Anonymous contributions

2019-04-11 Thread Christoph Cullmann
On 2019-04-11 20:36, David Edmundson wrote: We would need to ask a lawyer. I only know enough to know that I don't know enough. Hi, independent of any lawyer, my 2 cents: As we did never verify any names nor identities, is the discussion not mood? We already accept contributions, by lets

Re: Anonymous contributions

2019-04-11 Thread David Edmundson
We would need to ask a lawyer. I only know enough to know that I don't know enough.

Re: Anonymous contributions

2019-04-11 Thread Nate Graham
On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 11:55:42 -0600 David Edmundson wrote > There are legal implications as the copyright is ultimately held by real > people. Could we require that anonymous contributors relinquish copyright claims to KDE? When this came up the other day

Re: Anonymous contributions

2019-04-11 Thread David Edmundson
There are legal implications as the copyright is ultimately held by real people. Right now the linux kernel does not accept anonymous or pseudonyms for that reason. There was a thread a while back, it needs a real free software lawyer to give an answer. David

Anonymous contributions

2019-04-11 Thread Nate Graham
Hello everyone, I've seen the subject of anonymous contributions come up more and more lately as we have a few contributors who are not comfortable providing their real full name. This convention seems rather at odds with the Privacy goal that the KDE community has adopted, and I can think of