On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 07:42:58PM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote: > On Thursday 20 January 2005 7:37 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 07:28:42PM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote: > > > Actually, Gentoo is. The government doesn't insist on people signing > > > exactly what their ID has printed. Christopher could sign Chris, you can > > > omit/abbreviate names, etc... With common law, the government even admits > > > it does not have the authority to tell you what your name it-- if it is > > > your name (by definition of the word 'name'), they accept it. > > > Gentoo deals specifically with copyrights. The US government doesn't > > > require a name of any kind to be used for a copyright. I could write some > > > random program without any comments or copyright information whatsoever, > > > and it would still be legally copyrighted to me. > > > > No, they are not. If you bring government ID with a name on it that is > > good enough. So if you get a passport/driving license with whichever > > name you would like this week then that is good enough. > > > > So we are exactly as fussy. > > I think you missed the part about the US government not requiring an ID for > copyrights.
On a personal level and speaking as devrel lead, I really don't care about real names for copyrights as much as I care about the fact that someone who won't disclose their legal name is hiding something. -- Jon Portnoy avenj/irc.freenode.net -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
