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* Re: [gentoo-project] [RFC] GLEP 76: Copyright Policy
  @ 2018-06-17  7:38 99%     ` Kent Fredric
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From: Kent Fredric @ 2018-06-17  7:38 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Sun, 17 Jun 2018 09:00:54 +0200
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:

> I don't see how any of this would prevent a committer from adding a
> Signed-off-by line.

Here, it just seems like unnecessary fluff, given the committer and the
signed-off-by line should be identical.

It makes more sense in the kernel, where patches get formatted with
only author data, and the chain of custody from the border to its final
commit in kernel@ is not necessarily completely obvious.

Whereas in Gentoo, we don't really have any of those intermediate steps.

Its more a question what it seeks to achieve that can't be done with
existing data.

Especially considering anyone can trivially forge such a statement
and pretend they committed on somebody elses behalf after receiving a
patch.

And I somewhat find the "real names" policy somewhat obnoxious, for as
far as I'm aware, pseudonyms are just as legally binding as real names.

Requiring a legal name just excludes people, and well known pseudonymous
authors like "why_" would never participate in such a scheme.

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