Re: [gentoo-project] call for agenda items -- council meeting 2019-04-14

[Aaron Bauman <bman@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 06:49:11PM -0400, Chris Reffett wrote:
> 
> On 4/9/2019 6:10 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> > On 4/10/19 12:05 AM, Michael Everitt wrote:
> >> Not all cases are simply ones where a person does not wish to use their
> >> full given name, there are perfectly decent arguments for using a pseudonym
> >> when there could be mild or severe ramifications if their true identity was
> >> in the public domain. I'm thinking as obvious examples of those involved in
> >> security/penetration work, where it may be required, and not simply
> >> desirable to keep ones primary identity confidential. Are we really so
> >> draconian to eliminate these (often very well-skilled individuals) for
> >> making a specialist contribution to Gentoo Linux?!
> > 
> > The ultimate goal is to ensure that contributions are actually by the
> > ones holding a valid copyright, or the contribution being of a license
> > that is allowed under a license from the copyright holder. As mentioned
> > in the link in prior post, GPL itself doesn't explicitly exclude the
> > warranty of non-infridgement under UCC which can have severe legal
> > consequences if a third party relies on the contribution, and as such
> > puts Gentoo in a legal liability if we can't reasonably explain such
> > contributions. As long as the copyright is valid and we can document it,
> > it is fine, but as soon as things gets murky...
> > 
> 

Michael, I would be very intrigued to read about such pseudonyms being
required by cybersecurity folks... references?

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Cheers,
Aaron

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