Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Oct 2011 16:36:50 -0400 | Subject | Re: kernel.org status: establishing a PGP web of trust | From | Arnaud Lacombe <> |
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Hi,
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 04:00:39PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote: >>... >> > Each time a patch goes through him into the kernel, he certifies that >> > his real name is Andrew Morton. >> > >> > If that would not be his real name, it would make him somewhere between >> > completely untrustable and punishable at court. >> > >> Under which jurisdiction ? Under which law ? >> >> IANAL, but US copyright law does recognize the use of pseudonym for >> copyrighted work[0], without requirements to disclose one's legal >> name. > > I am not talking about copyright law. > > When you add a Signed-off-by: to a patch you have to use your real name > (see Documentation/SubmittingPatches for details). > > If violating that would be considered fraud or some other crime in some > jurisdictions is likely a non-trivial question. > One might still question the legality/constitutionality of such a statement. AFAIK, Greg KH, author of the sentence (in af45f32d25c) is not a lawyer.
Have the DCO clauses been legally validated ?
- Arnaud
note: to avoid doubt, I am writing this mail under my legal name.
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