On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 11:48:06 -0400 Aaron Bauman wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 06:28:15PM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> > On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 16:11:50 +0200 Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I support the idea of Gentoo being more inclusive.
> > > 
> > > Can we please keep irrelevant buzzwords out?
> > 
> > There is nothing irrelevant here. Gentoo is kicking people who
> > want to contribute because doesn't want to respect their privacy
> > because of some imaginary problems which were never appeared or
> > tested in real life. This makes Gentoo exclusive to those who want
> > their authorship to be public.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Andrew Savchenko
> 
> Andrew, it is not imaginary.  Playing the emotional game doesn't help
> either.  I am fairly certain all of those who had to make this decision
> have expressed their willingness to change it should it be supported
> legally.  It simply is not.

If it is not imaginary please provide a court case against Gentoo
or other free software distribution on this matter and some
evidence that proposed signed-off real name attribution played a
measurable effect.

As far as I can see this whole story is pure speculation of:
1) what may happen
2) what will help if 1) is to happen.

So far I saw zero practical evidence on both points.

> If you believe it is supported legally then please provide such
> evidence.  This decision was not arrived at lightly and I am confident
> enough to state that on behalf of both bodies involved.

I see no evidence that we have a mandatory legal requirement to put
real names under commit attributions in the first place. 

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko