(Off topic) Basile Starynkevitch wrote: > But you (whoever you really are) should also realize that to submit > patches and have them accepted, you need to have some legal papers done > with the FSF (copyright transfer or disclaimer, see the "legal > prerequisites" section of http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html at first). > And I would be very surprised if the FSF accepted a legal paper without > a real legal name.
Well, the FSF needs a the real name (and a valid postal address), but they do accept pseudonyms: "If a contributor wants the FSF to publish only a pseudonym, that is ok. The contributor should say this, and state the desired pseudonym, when answering the request- form. The actual legal papers will use the real name, but the FSF will publish only the pseudonym." Quote from: http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Papers.html#Copyright-Papers Can we - if possible - concentrate again at improving GCC and its infrastructure rather than doing this phantom debate? In case of Nightstrike, we have an active tester and thus contributor to especially MinGW64, who is also willing to work on updating Bugzilla - I do not see any reason to deter him from doing this. Tobias, who also prefers real names, but he understands that some prefer to remain anonymous, and accepts this
