[gentoo-project] [PATCH] glep-0076: Relax name policy to allow pseudonyms

[gentoo-project] [PATCH] glep-0076: Relax name policy to allow pseudonyms

[Michał Górny]

Update the signoff rules of GLEP 76 to allow using established
pseudonyms in addition to legal names.  This follows a similar change
that has been carried in the Linux kernel's documentation [1] that
Gentoo's policy has been based on.

This change is proposed instead of the "version 1.2" that has been
approved on 2022-12-11 but have not been pushed yet.  That version made
the wording significantly more complex without actually addressing
the original issue.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d4563201f33a022fc0353033d9dfeb1606a88330

Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/805575
Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
---
 glep-0076.rst | 20 ++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/glep-0076.rst b/glep-0076.rst
index 2216483..8a1ce94 100644
--- a/glep-0076.rst
+++ b/glep-0076.rst
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ Author: Richard Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>,
         Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
 Type: Informational
 Status: Active
-Version: 1.1
+Version: 1.3
 Created: 2013-04-23
 Last-Modified: 2022-07-02
-Post-History: 2018-06-10, 2018-06-19, 2018-08-31, 2018-09-26
+Post-History: 2018-06-10, 2018-06-19, 2018-08-31, 2018-09-26, 2023-03-02
 Content-Type: text/x-rst
 ---
 
@@ -136,9 +136,9 @@ the Certificate of Origin by adding ::
 
     Signed-off-by: Name <e-mail>
 
-to the commit message as a separate line.  The sign-off must contain
-the committer's legal name as a natural person, i.e., the name that
-would appear in a government issued document.
+to the commit message as a separate line, using a known identity.
+This could be the committer's legal name as a natural person
+or an established online identity.
 
 The following is the current Gentoo Certificate of Origin, revision 1:
 
@@ -242,9 +242,9 @@ to protect the Gentoo infrastructure owners and improve consistency.
 
 The copyright model is built on the DCO model used by the Linux kernel
 and requires all contributors to certify the legitimacy of their
-contributions.  This also requires that they use their real name for
-signing; an anonymous certification or one under a pseudonym would not
-mean anything.  This policy is derived from the Linux project's policy
+contributions.  This also requires that they use a known identity for
+signing; an anonymous certification would not mean anything.
+This policy is derived from the Linux project's policy as of 2023-02-27
 [#SUBMITTING-PATCHES]_.
 
 In the future, a second stage of this policy may use a combination of
@@ -378,8 +378,8 @@ References
 
 .. [#SUBMITTING-PATCHES] Submitting patches: the essential guide to
    getting your code into the kernel,
-   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v4.18#n460
-   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=af45f32d25cc1e374184675eadc9f740221d8392
+   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?id=d4563201f33a022fc0353033d9dfeb1606a88330#n410
+   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d4563201f33a022fc0353033d9dfeb1606a88330
 
 .. [#CC-SOFTWARE] Can I apply a Creative Commons license to software?
    https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-commons-license-to-software
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Re: [gentoo-project] [PATCH] glep-0076: Relax name policy to allow pseudonyms

[Ulrich Mueller]

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>>>>> On Thu, 02 Mar 2023, Michał Górny wrote:

> +to the commit message as a separate line, using a known identity.
> +This could be the committer's legal name as a natural person
> +or an established online identity.
 
IIRC the term "legal name" has also be criticised. Can we revert it to
"real name", which we had in the original wording [1]?

[1] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glep.git/tree/glep-0076.rst?id=3956481c7e5875772fe72cc4a3c994fa4b4e995c#n136

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Re: [gentoo-project] [PATCH] glep-0076: Relax name policy to allow pseudonyms

[Michał Górny]

On Thu, 2023-03-02 at 19:17 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > > > > > On Thu, 02 Mar 2023, Michał Górny wrote:
> 
> > +to the commit message as a separate line, using a known identity.
> > +This could be the committer's legal name as a natural person
> > +or an established online identity.
>  
> IIRC the term "legal name" has also be criticised. Can we revert it to
> "real name", which we had in the original wording [1]?

i.e. "real name or an established online identity"?

> 
> [1]
> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glep.git/tree/glep-0076.rst?id=3956481c7e5875772fe72cc4a3c994fa4b4e995c#n136

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

Re: [gentoo-project] [PATCH] glep-0076: Relax name policy to allow pseudonyms

[Ulrich Mueller]

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>>>>> On Thu, 02 Mar 2023, Michał Górny wrote:

>> > +to the commit message as a separate line, using a known identity.
>> > +This could be the committer's legal name as a natural person
>> > +or an established online identity.
>>  
>> IIRC the term "legal name" has also be criticised. Can we revert it to
>> "real name", which we had in the original wording [1]?

> i.e. "real name or an established online identity"?

I think we would want to keep "natural person". How about this:

+to the commit message as a separate line, using a known identity
+as a natural person.  This could be the committer's real name or
+an established online identity.

Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-project] [PATCH] glep-0076: Relax name policy to allow pseudonyms

[Michał Górny]

On Thu, 2023-03-02 at 20:16 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > > > > > On Thu, 02 Mar 2023, Michał Górny wrote:
> 
> > > > +to the commit message as a separate line, using a known
> > > > identity.
> > > > +This could be the committer's legal name as a natural person
> > > > +or an established online identity.
> > >  
> > > IIRC the term "legal name" has also be criticised. Can we revert
> > > it to
> > > "real name", which we had in the original wording [1]?
> 
> > i.e. "real name or an established online identity"?
> 
> I think we would want to keep "natural person". How about this:
> 
> +to the commit message as a separate line, using a known identity
> +as a natural person.  This could be the committer's real name or
> +an established online identity.

WFM.  I'll send v2 in a minute.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny